15 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 for a covenant over dead victims [is] stedfast, since it is no force at all when the covenant-victim liveth,