Hebrews 7:21-23

New American Standard Bible

²¹ (for they indeed became priests without an oath, but He with an oath through the One who said to Him,

²² by the same extent Jesus also has become the ^[a](D)guarantee of ^(E)a better covenant.

^23 [b]The former priests, on the one hand, existed in greater numbers because they were prevented by death from continuing;