17. For a covenant over those dead is firm, since it is never valid while the covenanted one is living.
18. Therefore not even the first covenant was instituted without blood.
19. For when, according to Torah, every command had been spoken by Mosheh to all the people, he took the blood of calves and goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people,
20. saying, “This is the blood of the covenant which Elohim commanded you.”
21. And in the same way he sprinkled with blood both the Tent and all the vessels of the service.
22. And, according to the Torah, almost all is cleansed with blood, and without shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.