That is why 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.

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 will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, cleanse our consciences from dead works so that we can serve the living God?

For if that first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no occasion for a second one.But finding fault with his people, he says: See, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah—not like the covenant that I made with their ancestors on the day I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt. I showed no concern for them, says the Lord, because they did not continue in my covenant.

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

Take a cluster of hyssop, dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and brush the lintel and the two doorposts with some of the blood in the basin. None of you may go out the door of his house until morning.

Moses came and told the people all the commands of the LORD and all the ordinances. Then all the people responded with a single voice,“ We will do everything that the LORD has commanded.”And Moses wrote down all the words of the LORD. He rose early the next morning and set up an altar and twelve pillars for the twelve tribes of Israel at the base of the mountain.Then he sent out young Israelite men, and they offered burnt offerings and sacrificed bulls as fellowship offerings to the LORD.Moses took half the blood and set it in basins; the other half of the blood he splattered on the altar.He then took the covenant scroll and read it aloud to the people. They responded,“ We will do and obey all that the LORD has commanded.”Moses took the blood, splattered it on the people, and said,“ This is the blood of the covenant that the LORD has made with you concerning all these words.”