58:009:016 For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the
death of the testator.
58:009:017 For a testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise it
is of no strength at all while the testator liveth.
58:009:018 Whereupon neither the first testament was dedicated without
blood.
58:009:019 For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book, and all the people,
58:009:020 Saying, This is the blood of the testament which God hath
enjoined unto you.
58:009:021 Moreover he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle, and all
the vessels of the ministry.
58:009:022 And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and
without shedding of blood is no remission.
58:009:023 It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the
heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things
themselves with better sacrifices than these.
58:009:024 For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with
hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven
itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us:
58:009:025 Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others;