Hebrews 9:18

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

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

So that even the first agreement was not made without blood.

Whence neither the first was inaugurated without blood.

Whereupon neither was the first indeed dedicated without blood.

For when every commandment had been spoken by Moses unto all the people according to the law, he took the blood of the calves and the goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself, and all the people,

According to ceremonial law, almost everything is made clean with blood, and without shedding blood nothing is made ritually free from the stain of sin.

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

Wherefore neither was the first ordeined without blood.

Whereupon neither the first testament was dedicated without blood.

for which reason, not even the first has been initiated apart from blood,

Whereupon neither the first testament was dedicated without blood.

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

Hence even the first testament was not dedicated without blood.

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

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

whence not even the first apart from blood hath been initiated,