16 For where a 1covenant is, there must of necessity 2be the death of the one who made it.

17 For a 1covenant is valid only when 2men are dead, 3for it is never in force while the one who made it lives.

18 Therefore even the first covenant was not inaugurated without blood.

19 For when every commandment had been aspoken by Moses to all the people according to the Law, bhe took the cblood of the calves and the goats, with dwater and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both ethe book itself and all the people,

20 saying, “aThis is the blood of the covenant which God commanded you.”

21 And in the same way he asprinkled both the 1tabernacle and all the vessels of the ministry with the blood.

22 And according to the 1Law, one may aalmost say, all things are cleansed with blood, and bwithout shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.

23 Therefore it was necessary for the acopies of the things in the heavens to be cleansed with these, but athe heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.

24 For Christ adid not enter a holy place made with hands, a mere copy of bthe true one, but into cheaven itself, now dto appear in the presence of God for us;