¹⁷ For ^(A)a will takes effect only at death, since it is not in force as long as the one who made it is alive. ¹⁸ Therefore not even the first covenant was inaugurated ^(B)without blood. ¹⁹ For when every commandment of the law had been declared by Moses to all the people, he took ^(C)the blood of calves and goats, ^(D)with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people,