17For a testament is of force where there hath been death: for it doth never avail while he that made it liveth.
18Wherefore even the first [covenant] hath not been dedicated without blood.
19For when every commandment had been spoken by Moses unto all the people according to the law, he took the blood of the calves and the goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people,
20saying, This is the blood of the covenant which God commanded to you-ward.
21Moreover the tabernacle and all the vessels of the ministry he sprinkled in like manner with the blood.
22And according to the law, I may almost say, all things are cleansed with blood, and apart from shedding of blood there is no remission.
23It was necessary therefore that the copies of the things in the heavens should be cleansed with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
