Yehudim in Moshiach 9:17-19

Orthodox Jewish Bible

¹⁷ For a Brit, a tzavv’a (covenant, will) is valid only when Bnei Adam have died, for it is never validly executed as long as the ba’al tzavva’a (testator, person who makes the will) lives.

¹⁸ Hence the Brit HaRishonah was not cut without DAHM. [Ex 24:8]

¹⁹ For when every mitzvah had been spoken by Moshe Rabbeinu to all the Am Brit according to the Torah, he took the dahm of se’irim and of agalim with mayim and scarlet wool and hyssop and sprinkled both the sefer itself and all the people,