¹⁵ Therefore, he is the mediator^(A) of a new covenant,^[a](B) so that those who are called might receive the promise^(C) of the eternal inheritance, because a death has taken place for redemption from the transgressions committed under the first covenant.^{(D) 16} Where a will exists, the death of the one who made it must be established. ¹⁷ For a will is valid only when people die, since it is never in effect while the one who made it is living. ¹⁸ That is why even the first covenant was inaugurated with blood. ¹⁹ For when every command had been proclaimed by Moses to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and goats,^[b] along with water, scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled the scroll itself and all the people,^{(E) 20} saying, This is the blood of the covenant that God has ordained for you.^{[c](F) 21} In the same way, he sprinkled the tabernacle and all the articles of worship with blood.^{(G) 22} According to the law almost everything is purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.^(H)

²⁵ He did not do this to offer himself many times, as the high priest enters the sanctuary yearly with the blood of another.^{(A) 26} Otherwise, he would have had to suffer many times since the foundation of the world. But now he has appeared one time, at the end of the ages,^(B) for the removal of sin by the sacrifice of himself.^(C)