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# This one became a priest
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The words "This one" refer to the one who became priest in the likeness of Melchizedek.
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# not based on a law of physical requirement
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He became priest, but it was not because he met the physical requirement. This physical requirement is that only the descendants of priests could become priests. Alternate translation: "a law of human descent" or "a law that required priests to be descendants of priests"