Hebrews 7:16

7:16 who has become a priest not by a legal regulation about physical descent ¹  but by the power of an indestructible life.

Hebrews 7:3

7:3 Without father, without mother, without genealogy, he has neither beginning of days nor end of life but is like the son of God, and he remains a priest for all time.

[7:16]  ¹ tn Grk “a law of a fleshly command.”