Qualifications for High Priesthood

For every high priest taken from among men is appointed for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins.

For men indeed swear by the greater, and an oath for confirmation is for them an end of all dispute.

Here mortal men receive tithes, but there he receives them, of whom it is witnessed that he lives.

For the law appoints as high priests men who have weakness, but the word of the oath, which came after the law, appoints the Son who has been perfected forever.

For a testament is in force after men are dead, since it has no power at all while the testator lives.

And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment,

By faith Joseph, when he was dying, made mention of the departure of the children of Israel, and gave instructions concerning his bones.

to the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are registered in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect,