So even the first covenant was inaugurated with blood.

所以，前约也不是不用血立的；

所以，第一个约也是用血立的。

所以，第一个约也是用血立的。

正因如此，连立旧约也需要用血才能生效。

因此，前约并不是没有用血立的：

原来不用血，第一个约也不能成立，

所以，前約也不是不用血立的；

所以，第一個約也是用血立的。

所以，第一個約也是用血立的。

正因如此，連立舊約也需要用血才能生效。

因此，前約並不是沒有用血立的：

所以就是先前的約也不是沒有用血開創的。

原來不用血，第一個約也不能成立，

故前約之立、非不以血也、

夫前約必歃血以堅之、

故前約亦非不以血而立者、

因此之故、即舊約之成立、亦未始無血。

This is why even the first covenant was not put into effect without blood.

That’s why even the first covenant was not put into effect without the spilling of blood.

Therefore not even the first covenant was inaugurated without blood.

That is why even the first covenant was put into effect with the blood of an animal.

That is why even the first covenant was inaugurated with blood.

Therefore even the first covenant was not inaugurated without blood.

Therefore not even the first covenant was dedicated without blood.

Wherefore even the first covenant hath not been dedicated without blood.

That is why even the first covenant was inaugurated with blood.

Whereupon neither the first[ testament] was dedicated without blood.

Therefore even the first covenant has not been dedicated without blood.

how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our consciences from dead works to worship the living God.

For if that first covenant had been faultless, no one would have looked for a second one.But showing its fault, God says to them,“ Look, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will complete a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah.“ It will not be like the covenant that I made with their fathers, on the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt, because they did not continue in my covenant and I had no regard for them, says the Lord.

Indeed according to the law almost everything was purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.

Take a branch of hyssop, dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and apply to the top of the doorframe and the two side posts some of the blood that is in the basin. Not one of you is to go out the door of his house until morning.

Moses came and told the people all the LORD’s words and all the decisions. All the people answered together,“ We are willing to do all the words that the LORD has said,”and Moses wrote down all the words of the LORD. Early in the morning he built an altar at the foot of the mountain and arranged twelve standing stones– according to the twelve tribes of Israel.He sent young Israelite men, and they offered burnt offerings and sacrificed young bulls for peace offerings to the LORD.Moses took half of the blood and put it in bowls, and half of the blood he splashed on the altar.He took the Book of the Covenant and read it aloud to the people, and they said,“ We are willing to do and obey all that the LORD has spoken.”So Moses took the blood and splashed it on the people and said,“ This is the blood of the covenant that the LORD has made with you in accordance with all these words.”