13. For if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a young cow sprinkled on those who are defiled sanctify them for the ritual purity of the flesh,
14. how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, cleanse our consciences from dead works to serve the living God?
15. And because of this, he is the mediator of a new covenant, in order that, because a death has taken place for the redemption of transgressions committed during the first covenant, those who are the called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.
16. For where there is a will, it is a necessity for the death of the one who made the will to be established.
17. For a will is in force concerning those who are dead, since it is never in force when the one who made the will is alive.
18. Therefore not even the first covenant was ratified without blood.
19. For when every commandment had been spoken by Moses to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves with water and scarlet wool and hyssop and sprinkled both the scroll itself and all the people,
20. saying, “This is the blood of the covenant that God has commanded for you.”