Therefore, if perfection were through the Levitical priesthood (for under it the people received the Law), what further need was there that another priest should rise according to the order of Melchizedek, and not be called according to the order of Aaron?

For He of whom these things are spoken belongs to another tribe, from which no man has attended at the altar.

And it is yet far more evident if, in the likeness of Melchizedek, there arises another priest

as a memorial to the children of Israel; that no strange man, who is not a seed of Aaron, should come near to offer incense before Jehovah, that he might not become like Korah and his company, as Jehovah had spoken by the hand of Moses.

And the children of Israel spoke to Moses, saying, Behold we have died, we have perished, we have all perished!

Whoever comes near the tabernacle of Jehovah dies. Are we all about to die? Have we been consumed?

And you shall keep the charge of the sanctuary and the charge of the altar, that there be no more wrath upon the children of Israel.

And they withstood King Uzziah, and said to him, It is not for you, Uzziah, to burn incense unto Jehovah, but for the priests, the sons of Aaron, who are consecrated to burn incense. Get out of the sanctuary, for you have trespassed! You shall have no honor from Jehovah God.

And Uzziah became enraged; and he had a censer in his hand to burn incense. And while he was angry with the priests, leprosy broke out on his forehead, before the priests in the house of Jehovah, beside the incense altar.

By faith Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts; and through it he being dead still speaks.