KJVAnd they truly were many priests, because they were not suffered to continue by reason of death:
And they indeed have been made priests many in number, because that by death they are hindered from continuing:
Now there have been many other priests, since death prevented them from continuing in office.
and those indeed are many who have become priests, because by death they are hindered from remaining;
And they have been many priests, on account of being hindered from continuing by death;
Hebrews — Apostolic writings (New Testament).
1. For this Melchisedec, etc. He has hitherto been stimulating the Jews by exhortations, that they might attentively consider the comparison between Christ and Melchisedec. At the end of the last chapter, that he might return from his digression to his subject, he quoted again the passage from the Psalms;…