16 For where a testament is, there must also necessarily be the death of the testator.
17 For a testament is of force after men are dead; otherwise it is of no strength while the testator liveth.
18 Whence neither was the first testament consecrated without blood.
19 For when Moses had spoken all the commandment according to the law to all the people, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with water, and scarlet wooll, and hyssop, and the book itself,
20 and sprinkled all the people, Saying, This is the blood of the testament, which God hath enjoined unto you.