⁷ For if there had been nothing wrong with that first covenant, no place would have been sought for another.^(A)

¹⁵ For this reason Christ is the mediator^(A) of a new covenant,^(B) that those who are called^(C) may receive the promised^(D) eternal inheritance^(E)—now that he has died as a ransom to set them free from the sins committed under the first covenant.^(F)

¹⁸ This is why even the first covenant was not put into effect without blood.^(A)