Hebrews 9:18-20 wherefore neither has the first been inaugurated apart from blood.

BLB⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹⁸ wherefore neither has the first been inaugurated apart from blood. ¹⁹ For of every commandment having been spoken by Moses to all the people according to the Law, having taken the blood of calves and of goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, he sprinkled both the book itself and all the people, ²⁰ saying, “This is the blood of the covenant, which God commanded unto you.”