Hebrews 9:17-19

American Standard Version

¹⁷ For a ^[a]testament is of force ^[b]where there hath been death: ^[c]for it doth never avail while he that made it liveth. ¹⁸ Wherefore even the first covenant hath not been dedicated without blood. ¹⁹ For when every commandment had been spoken by Moses unto all the people according to the law, he took the blood of the calves and the goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people,