For when the priesthood changes, a change in the law must come as well.

And those of the sons of Levi who receive the priestly office have authorization according to the law to collect a tithe from the people, that is, from their fellow countrymen, although they too are descendants of Abraham.

For which ones heard and rebelled? Was it not all who came out of Egypt under Moses’ leadership?

Therefore we must be wary that, while the promise of entering his rest remains open, none of you may seem to have come short of it.

But see how great he must be, if Abraham the patriarch gave him a tithe of his plunder.

But Melchizedek who does not share their ancestry collected a tithe from Abraham and blessed the one who possessed the promise.

For it is clear that our Lord is descended from Judah, yet Moses said nothing about priests in connection with that tribe.

By faith we understand that the worlds were set in order at God’s command, so that the visible has its origin in the invisible.

and he reasoned that God could even raise him from the dead, and in a sense he received him back from there.

We have an altar that those who serve in the tabernacle have no right to eat from.

But to which of the angels has he ever said, “Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet”?

For indeed he who makes holy and those being made holy all have the same origin, and so he is not ashamed to call them brothers and sisters,

But exhort one another each day, as long as it is called “Today,” that none of you may become hardened by sin’s deception.

For every high priest is taken from among the people and appointed to represent them before God, to offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins.

so also, after Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many, to those who eagerly await him he will appear a second time, not to bear sin but to bring salvation.

But my righteous one will live by faith, and if he shrinks back, I take no pleasure in him.

and women received back their dead raised to life. But others were tortured, not accepting release, to obtain resurrection to a better life.

Now may the God of peace who by the blood of the eternal covenant brought back from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep, our Lord Jesus Christ,

During his earthly life Christ offered both requests and supplications, with loud cries and tears, to the one who was able to save him from death and he was heard because of his devotion.

“It will not be like the covenant that I made with their fathers, on the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt, because they did not continue in my covenant and I had no regard for them, says the Lord.