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."