17. For a testament is of force, after men are dead: otherwise it is as yet of no strength, whilst the testator liveth.
18. Whereupon neither was the first indeed dedicated without blood.
19. For when every commandment of the law had been read by Moses 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 testament, which God hath enjoined unto you.
21. The tabernacle also and all the vessels of the ministry, in like manner, he sprinkled with blood.
22. And almost all things, according to the law, are cleansed with blood: and without shedding of blood there is no remission.
23. It is necessary therefore that the patterns of heavenly things should be cleansed with these: but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
24. For Jesus is not entered into the holies made with hands, the patterns of the true: but into heaven itself, that he may appear now in the presence of God for us.
25. Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holies, every year with the blood of others:
26. For then he ought to have suffered often from the beginning of the world: but now once at the end of ages, he hath appeared for the destruction of sin, by the sacrifice of himself.
27. And as it is appointed unto men once to die, and after this the judgment:
28. So also Christ was offered once to exhaust the sins of many; the second time he shall appear without sin to them that expect him unto salvation.