nope no amount of water ever washed any sins away .. it may represent symbolically . beyond that every o.t sacrifice was of the blood .. Cain and Abel sacrifice able brought a yearling--- brought of the first lings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the Lord had respect unto Abel and to his offering: in the tabernacle there was a blood sacrifice.. the priest did have go through a ceremonial cleaning to enter the tabernacle ,,beyond that it was all Blood even at that in the o.t it was only temporal .. where Christ sacrifice is eternal
Hebrews 9:13
12 Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.
For if the
blood of bulls and of goats,
and the ashes
of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying
of the flesh:
14 How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
14 How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
Hebrews 10
3 But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year.
4 For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.
5 Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me:.
once again if you hold to water forgiving of sins have at it