The Necessity of Blood for the New Covenant

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And because of this, of a new covenant he is mediator, that, death having come, for redemption of the transgressions under the first covenant, those called may receive the promise of the age-during inheritance,

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for where a covenant is , the death of the covenant-victim to come in is necessary,

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for a covenant over dead victims is stedfast, since it is no force at all when the covenant-victim liveth,

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whence not even the first apart from blood hath been initiated,

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for every command having been spoken, according to law, by Moses, to all the people, having taken the blood of the calves and goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, he both the book itself and all the people did sprinkle,

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saying, `This is the blood of the covenant that God enjoined unto you,'

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and both the tabernacle and all the vessels of the service with blood in like manner he did sprinkle,

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and with blood almost all things are purified according to the law, and apart from blood-shedding forgiveness doth not come.

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