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15 And this is even clearer if another priest arises in the likeness of Melchizedek, 16 who has become a priest not by a legal regulation about physical descent[a] but by the power of an indestructible life. 17 For here is the testimony about him:[b]You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.”[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Hebrews 7:16 tn Grk “a law of a fleshly command.”
  2. Hebrews 7:17 tn Grk “for he/it is witnessed that.”
  3. Hebrews 7:17 sn A quotation from Ps 110:4 (see Heb 5:6 and 6:20).