'First Covenant' in the Bible

For if the first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no occasion for a second.

The first covenant had indeed its regulations for worship, and a material sanctuary.

He mediates a new covenant for this reason, that those who have been called may obtain the eternal inheritance they have been promised, now that a death has occurred which redeems them from the transgressions involved in the first covenant.

Hence even the first covenant of God's will was not inaugurated apart from blood;