Hebrews 9:19 DBY

¹⁷  For a testament [is] of force when men are dead, since it is in no way of force while the testator is alive.)

¹⁸  Whence neither the first was inaugurated without blood.

¹⁹  For every commandment having been spoken according to [the] law by Moses to all the people; having taken the blood of calves and goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, he sprinkled both the book itself and all the people,

²⁰  saying, This [is] the blood of the covenant which God has enjoined to you.

²¹  And the tabernacle too and all the vessels of service he sprinkled in like manner with blood;