Many, indeed, have been made priests, because they are hindered from continuing by death.
Parallel translations
- KJV And they truly were many priests, because they were not suffered to continue by reason of death:
- BSB Now there have been many other priests, since death prevented them from continuing in office.
- NKJV Also there were many priests, because they were prevented by death from continuing.
- NASB The former priests, on the one hand, existed in greater numbers because they were prevented by death from continuing;
- NLT There were many priests under the old system, for death prevented them from remaining in office.
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Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 3
- Neh 12:10–11Jeshua became the father of Joiakim, and Joiakim became the father of Eliashib, and Eliashib became the father of Joiada,
- 1 Chr 6:3–14The children of Amram: Aaron, Moses, and Miriam. The sons of Aaron: Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
- Heb 7:8Here people who die receive tithes, but there one receives tithes of whom it is testified that he lives.
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