Hebrews 7:23
“And they truely were many Priests, because they were not suffered to continue by reason of death.”
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Hebrews 7:23 Context
21(For those Priests were made without an oath: but this with an oath, by him þt said vnto him, The Lord sware and wil not repent, thou art a Priest for euer after the order of Melchisedec) 22By so much was Iesus made a suertie of a better Testament. 23And they truely were many Priests, because they were not suffered to continue by reason of death. 24But this man because hee continueth euer, hath an vnchangeable Priesthood. 25Wherefore he is able also to saue them to the vttermost, that come vnto God by him, seeing hee euer liueth to make intercession for them.
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And they truly were many priests, because they were not suffered to continue by reason of death:
- King James Version
The {former} priests, on the one hand, existed in greater numbers because they were prevented by death from continuing,
- New American Standard Version (1995)