New Revised Standard Version
one who has become a priest, not through a legal requirement concerning physical descent, but through the power of an indestructible life.

Contemporary English Version
That person wasn't appointed because of his ancestors, but because his life can never end.

New American Bible
who has become so, not by a law expressed in a commandment concerning physical descent but by the power of a life that cannot be destroyed.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Who is made, not according to the law of a law of a carnal commandment, but according to the power of an indissoluble life.

Who is made, not according to the law of a law of a carnal commandment, but according to the power of an indissoluble life.

the law.

Hebrews 9:9,10 Which is a parable of the time present: according to which gifts and sacrifices are offered, which cannot, as to the conscience, make him perfect that serveth, only in meats and in drinks, . . .

Hebrews 10:1 For the law, having a shadow of the good things to come, not the very image of the things, by the selfsame sacrifices which they offer continually every year, can never make the comers thereunto perfect.

Galatians 4:3,9 So we also, when we were children, were serving under the elements of the world. . . .

Colossians 2:14,20 Blotting out the handwriting of the decree that was against us, which was contrary to us. And he hath taken the same out of the way, fastening it to the cross. . . .

the power.

Hebrews 7:3,17,21,24,25,28 Without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but likened unto the Son of God, continueth a priest for ever. . . .

Revelation 1:18 And alive, and was dead. And behold I am living for ever and ever and have the keys of death and of hell.