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18 For this reason, the first covenant was not ratified without blood. 19 Indeed, after every command was spoken by Moses to all the people, in accordance with the law, he took the blood of calves and of goats,[a] with water and scarlet wool and a hyssop branch, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people. 20 He said, “This is the blood of the covenant that God established for you.”[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Hebrews 9:19 A few witnesses to the text omit and of goats.
  2. Hebrews 9:20 Exodus 24:8