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.”
21. And likewise he sprinkled both the tabernacle and all the utensils of service with the blood.
22. Indeed, nearly everything is purified with blood according to the law, and apart from the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.
23. Therefore it was necessary for the sketches of the things in heaven to be purified with these sacrifices, but the heavenly things themselves to be purified with better sacrifices than these.