For this is my Covenant blood, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.

"This is my Covenant-blood," he said, "which is poured out on behalf of many.

And in the same way with the cup, after supper, saying: "This cup is the New Covenant made by my blood which is being poured out on your behalf.]

And in the same way with the cup, after supper, saying "This cup is the new Covenant made by my blood. Do this, whenever you drink it, in memory of me."

How much worse then, think you, will be the punishment deserved by those who have trampled underfoot the Son of God, who have treated the blood that rendered the Covenant valid--the very blood by which they were purified--as of no account, and who have outraged the Spirit of Love?

May God, the source of all peace, who brought back from the dead him who, 'by virtue of the blood that rendered valid the unchangeable Covenant, is the Great Shepherd of God's Sheep,' Jesus, our Lord--

This explains why even the first Covenant was not ratified without the shedding of blood.

saying, as he did so-- "This is the blood that renders valid the Covenant which God has commanded to be made with you."