And it is true that by the law, those of the sons of Levi who have the position of priests may take a tenth part of the people's goods; that is to say, they take it from their brothers though these are the sons of Abraham.

Now if it was possible for things to be made complete through the priests of the house of Levi (for the law was given to the people in connection with them), what need was there for another priest who was of the order of Melchizedek and not of the order of Aaron?

Because if the priests are changed, it is necessary to make a change in the law.

That is to say, not made by a law based on the flesh, but by the power of a life without end:

So the law which went before is put on one side, because it was feeble and without profit.

(Because the law made nothing complete), and in its place there is a better hope, through which we come near to God.

The law makes high priests of men who are feeble; but the word of the oath, which was made after the law, gives that position to a Son, in whom all good is for ever complete.

If he had been on earth he would not have been a priest at all, because there are other priests who make the offerings ordered by the law;

For when Moses had given all the rules of the law to the people, he took the blood of goats and young oxen, with water and red wool and hyssop, and put it on the book itself and on all the people,

And by the law almost all things are made clean with blood, and without blood there is no forgiveness.

And because by God's law death comes to men once, and after that they are judged;

For the law, being only a poor copy of the future good things, and not the true image of those things, is never able to make the people who come to the altar every year with the same offerings completely clean.

After saying, You had no desire for offerings, for burned offerings or offerings for sin (which are made by the law) and you had no pleasure in them,

A man who has gone against the law of Moses is put to death without pity on the word of two or three witnesses: