16Because where there is a testament, there has to be the death of the man who made it.
17For a testament has effect after death; for what power has it while the man who made it is living?
18So that even the first agreement was not made without blood.
19For when Moses had given all the rules of the law to the people, he took the blood of goats and young oxen, with water and red wool and hyssop, and put it on the book itself and on all the people,
20Saying, This blood is the sign of the agreement which God has made with you.
21And the blood was put on the Tent and all the holy vessels in the same way.
22And by the law almost all things are made clean with blood, and without blood there is no forgiveness.
