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Moses then took the blood, sprinkled it on the people and said, “This is the blood of the covenant that the Lord has made with you in accordance with all these words.”
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In addition to all your other detestable practices, you brought foreigners uncircumcised in heart and flesh into my sanctuary, desecrating my temple while you offered me food, fat and blood, and you broke my covenant.
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As for you, because of the blood of my covenant with you, I will free your prisoners from the waterless pit.
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This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.
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“This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many,” he said to them.
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In the same way, after the supper he took the cup, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you.
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In the same way, after supper he took the cup, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood; do this, whenever you drink it, in remembrance of me.”
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This is why even the first covenant was not put into effect without blood.
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He said, “This is the blood of the covenant, which God has commanded you to keep.”
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How much more severely do you think someone deserves to be punished who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, who has treated as an unholy thing the blood of the covenant that sanctified them, and who has insulted the Spirit of grace?
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to Jesus the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.
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Benediction and Final Greetings
Now may the God of peace, who through the blood of the eternal covenant brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep,