17. For a testament is confirmed by the death: otherwise it is not valid as long as the testator lives.
18. From which came that not even the first one was dedicated without blood.
19. For when Moses had read every commandment of the law to all the people, taking the blood of calves and of goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, he sprinkled both the book and all the people,
20. saying, This is the blood of the testament which God has commanded unto you.
21. Moreover he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle and all the vessels of the ministry.
22. And almost all things are by the law purged with blood, and without shedding of blood there is no remission.
23. So that it was necessary that the figures of the heavenly things should be purified with these, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
24. For Christ is not entered into the sanctuary made with hands (which is a figure of the true), but into the heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us,
25. nor yet that he should offer himself many times (as the high priest enters into the sanctuary each year with blood that is not his own);
26. otherwise it would have been necessary for him to suffer many times since the foundation of the world; but now once in the consummation of the ages he has appeared to abolish sin by the sacrifice of himself.
27. And as it is appointed unto men to die once, and after this the judgment;
28. so also the Christ is offered once to take away the sins of many; and unto those that wait for him without sin he shall appear the second time unto saving health.