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If indeed, therefore, there had been, a perfecting through means of the Levitical priesthood, - for, the people, thereon, have had based a code of laws, what further need, according to the rank of Melchizedek, for a different priest to be raised up, and, not according to the rank of Aaron, to be designated?

For, seeing there is to be a change of the priesthood, of necessity, of law too, a change cometh.

For, he as to whom these things are said, with a different tribe, hath taken partnership, from which, no one, hath given attendance at the altar;

For it is, very evident, that out of Judah hath sprung our Lord, - respecting which tribe, concerning priests, nothing did Moses speak,

And, yet more abundantly evident it is - that, according to the likeness of Melchizedek, there is to be raised up, a different priest.

Who, not according to a law of commandment dealing with the flesh, hath arisen, but according to the power of an indissoluble life;

For it is witnessed - Thou, art a priest, age-abidingly, according to the rank of Melchizedek.

For, a setting aside, doth, indeed, take place, of a foregoing commandment, by reason of its own weakness and unprofitableness, -

For, the law, perfected, nothing; but there is the superinducing of a better hope, - through which we draw near unto God.