Hebrews 9:16-23

English Standard Version

¹⁶ For where a will is involved, the death of the one who made it must be established. ¹⁷ For ^(A)a will takes effect only at death, since it is not in force as long as the one who made it is alive. ¹⁸ Therefore not even the first covenant was inaugurated ^(B)without blood. ¹⁹ For when every commandment of the law had been declared by Moses to all the people, he took ^(C)the blood of calves and goats, ^(D)with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people, ²⁰ saying, ^(E)“This is the blood of the covenant that God commanded for you.” ²¹ And in the same way he sprinkled with the blood both ^(F)the tent and all the vessels used in worship. ²² Indeed, under the law almost everything is purified with blood, and ^(G)without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins.

²³ Thus it was necessary for ^(H)the copies of the heavenly things to be purified with these rites, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.