¹⁸ Therefore not even the first covenant was inaugurated ^(A)without blood.

¹⁹ For when every commandment of the law had been declared by Moses to all the people, he took ^(A)the blood of calves and goats, ^(B)with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people,

²⁰ saying, ^(A)“This is the blood of the covenant that God commanded for you.”