16 For where there is a testament, there must also be brought forward in evidence the death of the testator.
17 For a testament is only of force in case of the dead, being never valid so long as the testator lives.
18 Accordingly we find that not without blood was the first testament enacted.
19 For after every commandment according to the law had been spoken by Moses to the people, he took the blood of calves and goats, and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people.
20 saying, This is the blood of that testament which God commanded in regard to you.