12 When there is a change of priesthood, there is necessarily a change of law as well.
13 Now he of whom these things are said belonged to a different tribe, of which no member ever officiated at the altar.
14 It is clear that our Lord arose from Judah, and in regard to that tribe Moses said nothing about priests.
15 It is even more obvious if another priest is raised up after the likeness of Melchizedek,
16 who has become so, not by a law expressed in a commandment concerning physical descent but by the power of a life that cannot be destroyed.
17 For it is testified:“You are a priest foreveraccording to the order of Melchizedek.”
18 On the one hand, a former commandment is annulled because of its weakness and uselessness,