15. For this reason He is the Mediator of a new covenant, since a death has occurred for the redemption of the sins that were committed under the first covenant, so that those who are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.
16. For where there is a will, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator.
17. For a will has force after men are dead, since it has no force at all while the testator lives.
18. So not even the first covenant was inaugurated without blood.
19. For when Moses had taught every precept to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and goats, with water, scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book and all the people,
20. saying, “This is the blood of the covenant that God has commanded you to keep.”
21. Likewise he sprinkled both the tabernacle and all the vessels of worship with blood.
22. And according to the law almost everything must be cleansed with blood; without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.
23. It was therefore necessary that the replicas of heavenly things be cleansed with these sacrifices, but that the heavenly things themselves be cleansed with better sacrifices than these.
24. For Christ did not enter holy places made with hands, which are patterned after the true one, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us.