15. For this reason He is the mediator of a new covenant, in order that those called may receive the promised eternal inheritance—since a death has taken place that redeems them from violations under the first covenant.
16. For where there is a covenant, the death of the one who made it must be established.
17. For a covenant is secured upon the basis of dead bodies, since it has no strength as long as the one who made it lives.
18. That is why not even the first covenant was inaugurated without blood.
19. For when every commandment had been spoken by Moses to all the people according to the Torah, he took the blood of the calves and goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and he sprinkled both the book itself and all the people.
20. He said, “This is the blood of the covenant which God commanded you.”
21. And in the same way, he sprinkled the tabernacle and all the vessels of the ministry with the blood.
22. And nearly everything is purified in blood according to the Torah, and apart from the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.
23. Therefore it was necessary for the replicas of these heavenly things to be purified with these sacrifices—but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
24. For Messiah did not enter into Holies made with hands—counterparts of the true things—but into heaven itself, now to appear in God’s presence on our behalf.