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

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.

So even the first covenant was inaugurated with blood.

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

How much more, then, will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself unblemished to God, cleanse our consciences from acts that lead to death, so that we may serve the living God!

For if there had been nothing wrong with that first covenant, no place would have been sought for another.But God found fault with the people and said:“ The days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the people of Israel and with the people of Judah.It will not be like the covenant I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt, because they did not remain faithful to my covenant, and I turned away from them, declares the Lord.

In fact, the law requires that nearly everything be cleansed with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.

Take a bunch of hyssop, dip it into the blood in the basin and put some of the blood on the top and on both sides of the doorframe. None of you shall go out of the door of your house until morning.

When Moses went and told the people all the Lord’s words and laws, they responded with one voice,“ Everything the Lord has said we will do.”Moses then wrote down everything the Lord had said. He got up early the next morning and built an altar at the foot of the mountain and set up twelve stone pillars representing the twelve tribes of Israel.Then he sent young Israelite men, and they offered burnt offerings and sacrificed young bulls as fellowship offerings to the Lord.Moses took half of the blood and put it in bowls, and the other half he splashed against the altar.Then he took the Book of the Covenant and read it to the people. They responded,“ We will do everything the Lord has said; we will obey.”Moses then took the blood, sprinkled 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.”