For it is evident that our Lord was descended from Judah, a tribe with reference to which Moses said nothing concerning priests.

(for they indeed became priests without an oath, but He with an oath through the One who said to Him, “The Lord has sworn And will not change His mind, ‘You are a priest forever’”);

The former priests, on the one hand, existed in greater numbers because they were prevented by death from continuing;

who has no daily need, like those high priests, to offer up sacrifices, first for His own sins and then for the sins of the people, because He did this once for all time when He offered up Himself.

For the Law appoints men as high priests who are weak, but the word of the oath, which came after the Law, appoints a Son, who has been made perfect forever.

Now when these things have been so prepared, the priests are continually entering the outer tabernacle, performing the divine worship,