Hebrews 9:15-23 For this reason he is the mediator of a better covenant that, a death having taken place for redemption from sins under the first covenant, those who have been called may receive the eternal inheritance promised to them.

Riverside⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹⁵ For this reason he is the mediator of a better covenant that, a death having taken place for redemption from sins under the first covenant, those who have been called may receive the eternal inheritance promised to them. ¹⁶ For where there is a last will and testament the death of the testator must be put in evidence. ¹⁷ For a will is valid in the case of the dead: it never has any force while the testator is living. ¹⁸ Hence the first covenant was not introduced without blood. ¹⁹ When all the commands of the Law had been spoken by Moses to all the people, he took the blood of calves and goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled it on the book and on all the people, ²⁰ saying, "This is the blood of the covenant which God has commanded for you." ²¹ And the Tent and all the things used in worship he likewise sprinkled with blood. ²² Almost everything is cleansed with blood, according to the Law, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness. ²³ It was necessary, then, that the copies of the things in heaven should be cleansed with these sacrifices, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.