In vv. 6 and 8 the blood from the sacrifices offered on the altar (v. 5), typifying the blood of Christ, was for redemption and for the forgiveness and cleansing of sins (Eph. 1:7; 1 Pet. 1:18-19; Matt. 26:28; Heb. 9:22; 1 John 1:7, 9). This blood also enacted the covenant between God and His people. Hence, the blood is referred to here as “the blood of the covenant.” The blood made it possible for God’s people, as fallen and sinful persons who had been redeemed, forgiven, and cleansed, to enter into God’s presence, i.e., into God Himself, and remain there to be infused with Him and thereby be constituted pillars as a living testimony, a living portrait, of what God is (vv. 9-18; 34:28-29; Lev. 16:11-16; cf. Heb. 10:19-20). Eventually, the blood of Christ as the blood of the new covenant (Matt. 26:28; Luke 22:20) ushers God’s people into the better things of the new covenant, in which God gives His people a new heart, a new spirit, His Spirit, and the inner law of life, denoting God Himself with His nature, life, attributes, and virtues (Jer. 31:33-34; Ezek. 36:26-27; Heb. 8:10-12). Ultimately, the blood of the new covenant, the eternal covenant (Heb. 13:20), leads God’s people into the full enjoyment of God as the tree of life and the water of life both now and for eternity (Rev. 7:14, 17; 22:1-2, 14, 17).