English “distinctly” emboldened in Nehemiah 8:8 “So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading” was translated from Hebrew verb H6567 paras which was translated into “that are scattered” in “As a shepherd seeketh out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered; so will I seek out my sheep, and will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day” and into “stingeth” in “At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder”.
Levi [Great-grandfather of Moses and Aaron] was the first in the lineage of the Levitical priesthood as Jesus is the first of “seven thousand” “election” “after the order of Melchisedec, and not be called after the order of Aaron” “These sought their register among those that were reckoned by genealogy, but it was not found: therefore were they, as polluted, put from the priesthood”. The crux of the 7th chapter of Nehemiah is that the Levitical Priesthood was infiltrated by descendants of Cain and others to the extent that no one was left of the genealogy of Levi who was the namesake of the Levitical priesthood. God displaced the Levitical priesthood with God’s “seven thousand” “chosen” “elect” “election” who achieved the “first resurrection” of Revelation 20:5-6 “But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection” “Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years” confirming that God is in the process of displacing a flesh Levitical priesthood with a spiritual priesthood of “seven thousand” “chosen” “elect” “election”.
Your understanding of Hebrews 7:4-11 will be enhanced by following God’s 2Timothy 2:15, 20-21 instructions and studying all of the 7th and 8th chapters of Hebrews. Greek adjective 3516 nepios has never described and qualified “babes” it has always described and qualified God’s “seven thousand” “chosen” “elect” “election” who have negated {de-testified} all the previously spoken words of human beings {excluding Jesus Christ} as commanded in the Greek words of Luke 14:26 fully defined in prior posts.
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