^{18 Ref} Wherefore even the first `covenant' hath not been dedicated without blood.

^{19 Ref} For when every commandment had been spoken by Moses unto all the people according to the law, he took the blood of the calves and the goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people,

^{20 Ref} saying, This is the blood of the covenant which God commanded to you-ward.