^{15 Ref} And for this cause it is through him that a new agreement has come into being, so that after the errors under the first agreement had been taken away by his death, the word of God might have effect for those who were marked out for an eternal heritage.

¹⁶ Because where there is a testament, there has to be the death of the man who made it.

^{17 Ref} For a testament has effect after death; for what power has it while the man who made it is living?

^{18 Ref} So that even the first agreement was not made without blood.

^{19 Ref} For when Moses had given all the rules of the law to the people, he took the blood of goats and young oxen, with water and red wool and hyssop, and put it on the book itself and on all the people,

^{20 Ref} Saying, This blood is the sign of the agreement which God has made with you.

^{21 Ref} And the blood was put on the Tent and all the holy vessels in the same way.

^{22 Ref} And by the law almost all things are made clean with blood, and without blood there is no forgiveness.

^{23 Ref} For this cause it was necessary to make the copies of the things in heaven clean with these offerings; but the things themselves are made clean with better offerings than these.