⁴ For if he were on earth, he would not be a priest at all, seeing there are priests who offer the gifts according to the law;

¹¹ Now if there was perfection through the Levitical priesthood (for under it the people have received the law), what further need was there for another priest to arise after the order of Melchizedek, and not be called after the order of Aaron?

¹² For the priesthood being changed, there is of necessity a change made also in the law.

¹³ For he of whom these things are said belongs to another tribe, from which no one has officiated at the altar.

¹⁴ For it is evident that our Lord has sprung out of Judah, about which tribe Moses spoke nothing concerning priesthood.

¹⁵ This is yet more abundantly evident, if after the likeness of Melchizedek there arises another priest,

¹ For every high priest, being taken from among men, is appointed for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins.

⁴⁰ to be a memorial to the children of Israel, to the end that no stranger, who isn't of the seed of Aaron, comes near to burn incense before Yahweh; that he not be as Korah, and as his company: as Yahweh spoke to him by Moses.

¹² The children of Israel spoke to Moses, saying, Behold, we perish, we are undone, we are all undone.

¹³ Everyone who comes near, who comes near to the tent of Yahweh, dies: shall we perish all of us?

⁵ You shall keep the charge of the sanctuary, and the charge of the altar; that there be wrath no more on the children of Israel.

¹⁸ and they withstood Uzziah the king, and said to him, It pertains not to you, Uzziah, to burn incense to Yahweh, but to the priests the sons of Aaron, who are consecrated to burn incense: go out of the sanctuary; for you have trespassed; neither shall it be for your honor from Yahweh God.

¹⁹ Then Uzziah was angry; and he had a censer in his hand to burn incense; and while he was angry with the priests, the leprosy broke forth in his forehead before the priests in the house of Yahweh, beside the altar of incense.

⁴ By faith, Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he had testimony given to him that he was righteous, God bearing witness with respect to his gifts; and through it he, being dead, still speaks.