^{15 Ref} And because of this, of a new covenant he is mediator, that, death having come, for redemption of the transgressions under the first covenant, those called may receive the promise of the age-during inheritance,

¹⁶ for where a covenant `is', the death of the covenant-victim to come in is necessary,

^{17 Ref} for a covenant over dead victims `is' stedfast, since it is no force at all when the covenant-victim liveth,

^{18 Ref} whence not even the first apart from blood hath been initiated,