Hebrews 7:12

The Passion Translation

And furthermore, for God to send a new and different rank of priest, meant a new law would have had to be instituted even to allow it!

Cross References

Isaiah 66:21

And some of them I will appoint as Levitical priests,” says Yahweh.

Ezekiel 16:61

When you get back your older and younger sisters, then you will remember your ways and feel ashamed. I will make them like daughters to you, but not on the basis of my new covenant with you.

Hebrews 7:11

If any of the Levitical priests who served under the law had the power to bring us into perfection, then why did God send Christ as Priest after the likeness of Melchizedek? He should have said, “After the likeness of Aaron.” –

Hebrews 7:13

Yet the One these things all point to, was from a different tribe and no one from that tribe ever officiated at God’s altar,

Hebrews 9:10

For this old pattern of worship was a matter of external rules and rituals concerning food and drink and ceremonial washings which was imposed upon us until the appointed time of heart-restoration had arrived.