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covenantal intimacy. I have explored this subject in greater depth in the book The Marriage
Covenant, but I will give a brief summary here.

Yahweh ordained that certain covenants should be sealed in blood, for “life is in the blood.”
These covenants were appropriately called “blood covenants.” The Scriptures refer to the New
Covenant inaugurated between God and man through the blood of Yahweh’s Son. This is an
inviolable covenant, for it is established in blood.

I Corinthians 11:25
In the same way He took the cup also, after supper, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in My
blood...”

Hebrews 9:11-12
But when Christ appeared as a high priest of the good things to come, He entered through the
greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this creation; and
not through the blood of goats and calves, but through His own blood, He entered the holy place
once for all, having obtained age-lasting redemption.

When God designed the creation, He did so with covenant in mind. He fashioned the bodies of
the man and the woman so that a blood covenant would be enacted whenever a man knew a
virgin sexually for the first time. The body is designed as a temple. There is a correlation between
the Holy of Holies, the innermost and most sacred part of the Temple, and the reproductive
organs of a woman’s body. Even as there was a veil in the Tabernacle of Moses, and the Temple
of Solomon, to guard the entrance to the Holy of Holies (or the Most Holy Place), so too has
Yahweh placed a veil at the entrance to the woman’s reproductive organs. This veil is called the
“hymen.” The word “hymen” literally means “veil.”

When a virgin has sexual intercourse for the first time, the
hymen is torn as the man penetrates the woman’s flesh. The
tearing of the hymen causes bleeding, and the man carries this
blood on his covenant organ (male circumcision is a sign of
covenant) into the woman’s holy of holies.