^18 (A)Therefore not even the first covenant was dedicated without blood.

³ So Moses came and told the people all the words of the Lord and all the ^[a]judgments. And all the people answered with one voice and said, ^(A)“All the words which the Lord has said we will do.” ⁴ And Moses ^(B)wrote all the words of the Lord. And he rose early in the morning, and built an altar at the foot of the mountain, and twelve ^(C)pillars according to the twelve tribes of Israel. ⁵ Then he sent young men of the children of Israel, who offered ^(D)burnt offerings and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen to the Lord. ⁶ And Moses ^(E)took half the blood and put it in basins, and half the blood he sprinkled on the altar. ⁷ Then he ^(F)took the Book of the Covenant and read in the hearing of the people. And they said, “All that the Lord has said we will do, and be obedient.” ⁸ And Moses took the blood, sprinkled it on the people, and said, “This is ^(G)the blood of the covenant which the Lord has made with you according to all these words.”

²² And according to the law almost all things are ^[a]purified with blood, and ^(A)without shedding of blood there is no ^[b]remission.

¹⁴ how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without ^[a]spot to God, ^(A)cleanse your conscience from ^(B)dead works ^(C)to serve the living God?

A New Covenant^(A)

⁷ For if that ^(B)first covenant had been faultless, then no place would have been sought for a second. ⁸ Because finding fault with them, He says: ^(C)“Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah— ⁹ not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they did not continue in My covenant, and I disregarded them, says the Lord.

^22 (A)And you shall take a bunch of hyssop, dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and ^(B)strike the lintel and the two doorposts with the blood that is in the basin. And none of you shall go out of the door of his house until morning.