Catholic Public Domain Version
"saying: “This is the blood of the testament which God has commanded for you.” "
— Hebrews 9:20, Catholic Public Domain Version
“Saying, This is the blood of the testament which God hath enjoined unto you.”
“saying, This is the blood of the covenant which God commanded to you-ward. ”
“saying, "This is the blood of the covenant which God has commanded you."”
“and said,“This is the blood of the covenant that God has commanded you to keep.””
“Saying: This is the blood of the testament which God hath enjoined unto you.”
“Saying, This blood is the sign of the agreement which God has made with you.”
“Saying, This is the blood of the testament which God hath enjoined unto you.”
For a testament is confirmed by death. Otherwise, it as yet has no force, as long as the one who testifies lives.
Therefore, indeed, the first was not dedicated without blood.
For when every commandment of the law had been read by Moses to the entire people, he took up the blood of calves and goats, with water and with scarlet wool and hyssop, and he sprinkled both the book itself and the entire people,
saying: “This is the blood of the testament which God has commanded for you.”
And even the tabernacle, and all the vessels for the ministry, he similarly sprinkled with blood.
And nearly everything, according to the law, is to be cleansed with blood. And without the shedding of blood, there is no remission.
Therefore, it is necessary for the examples of heavenly things to be cleansed, just as, indeed, these things were. Yet the heavenly things are themselves better sacrifices than these.