18. Therefore not even the first covenant was instituted without blood.
19. For when, according to Torah, every command had been spoken by Mosheh 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 covenant which Elohim commanded you.”
21. And in the same way he sprinkled with blood both the Tent and all the vessels of the service.
22. And, according to the Torah, almost all is cleansed with blood, and without shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.
23. It was necessary, then, that the copies of the heavenly ones should be cleansed with these, but the heavenly ones themselves with better slaughter offerings than these.
24. For Messiah has not entered into a Set-apart Place made by hand – figures of the true – but into the heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of Elohim on our behalf,