Hebrews 9:17-19

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

¹⁷ For a will^[a] takes effect only at death, since it is not in force as long as the one who made it is alive. ¹⁸ Hence not even the first covenant was inaugurated without blood. ¹⁹ For when every commandment had been told to all the people by Moses in accordance with the law, he took the blood of calves and goats,^[b] with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the scroll itself and all the people,