18. Therefore, indeed, the first was not dedicated without blood.
19. For when every commandment of the law had been read by Moses to the entire people, he took up the blood of calves and goats, with water and with scarlet wool and hyssop, and he sprinkled both the book itself and the entire people,
20. saying: "This is the blood of the testament which God has commanded for you."
21. And even the tabernacle, and all the vessels for the ministry, he similarly sprinkled with blood.
22. And nearly everything, according to the law, is to be cleansed with blood. And without the shedding of blood, there is no remission.
23. Therefore, it is necessary for the examples of heavenly things to be cleansed, just as, indeed, these things were. Yet the heavenly things are themselves better sacrifices than these.