009:014 how much more certainly shall the blood of Christ, who strengthened by the eternal Spirit offered Himself to God, free from blemish, purify your consciences from lifeless works for you to serve the ever-living God?
009:015 And because of this He is the negotiator of a new Covenant, in order that, since a life has been given in atonement for the offences committed under the first Covenant, those who have been called may receive the eternal inheritance which has been promised to them.
009:016 For where there is a legal `will,' there must also be a death
brought forward in evidence—the death of him who made it.
009:017 And a will is only of force in the case of a deceased person,
being never of any avail so long as he who made it lives.
009:018 Accordingly we find that the first Covenant was not
inaugurated without blood.
009:019 For when Moses had proclaimed to all the people every commandment contained in the Law, he took the blood of the calves and of the goats and with them water, scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people,
009:020 saying, "This is the blood which confirms the Covenant that God
has made binding upon you."
009:021 And in the same way he also sprinkled blood upon the Tent
of worship and upon all the vessels used in the ministry.
009:022 Indeed we may almost say that in obedience to the Law everything
is sprinkled with blood, and that apart from the outpouring
of blood there is no remission of sins.
009:023 It was needful therefore that the copies of the things in Heaven
should be cleansed in this way, but that the heavenly things
themselves should be cleansed with more costly sacrifices.