'First Covenant' in the Bible

For if that first covenant had been faultless, then a place would not have been sought for a second.

The first covenant, then, had indeed ordinances of religious service, and a worldly sanctuary.

And for this cause he is the mediator of a new covenant, that, death having taken place for redemption from the transgressions under the first covenant, they who have been called may receive the everlasting inheritance which was promised.

Hence neither was the first covenant ratified without blood.