The God of peace that brought again from death our Lord Jesus Christ, the great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting testament,

Thou also, through the blood of thy covenant, shalt let thy prisoners out of the pit, wherein is no water.

This is my blood of the new testament, that shall be shed for many, for the forgiveness of sins.

Testament

For wheresoever is a testament, there must also be the death of him that maketh the testament.

And they came unto Joshua, unto the host to Gilgal, and said unto him and unto the men of Israel, "We be come from a far country, now therefore make agreement with us."

General references

And let the priest take cypress wood, and Hyssop and purple cloth, and cast it upon the cow as she burneth.

The LORD our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.