for a covenant over dead victims `is' stedfast, since it is no force at all when the covenant-victim liveth,
And Israel saith unto Joseph, `Lo, I am dying, and God hath been with you, and hath brought you back unto the land of your fathers;
`Peace I leave to you; my peace I give to you, not according as the world doth give do I give to you; let not your heart be troubled, nor let it be afraid;
Brethren, as a man I say `it', even of man a confirmed covenant no one doth make void or doth add to,
for where a covenant `is', the death of the covenant-victim to come in is necessary,
whence not even the first apart from blood hath been initiated,