16 For where there is a legal will,' there must also be a death brought forward in evidence–the death of him who made it.

17 And a will is only of force in the case of a deceased person, being never of any avail so long as he who made it lives.

18 Accordingly we find that the first Covenant was not inaugurated without blood.

19 For when Moses had proclaimed to all the people every commandment contained in the Law, he took the blood of the calves and of the goats and with them water, scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people,

20 saying, »This is the blood which confirms the Covenant that God has made binding upon you.«