Hebrews 9:17-19

New Catholic Bible

¹⁷ For a will takes effect only at death, since it has no force while the one who made it is still alive.

¹⁸ Hence, not even the first covenant was inaugurated without blood. ¹⁹ For when all the commandments of the Law had been proclaimed by Moses to all the people, he took the blood of calves and goats, together with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people,