Hebrews 7:1-10 ▼

1 For this Melchizedek, the king of Salem, priest of the Most High God, the one having met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings, and blessed him,

2 to whom Abraham divided the tenth from all first, being interpreted, King of righteousness, and then King of Salem, which is, King of peace;

3 without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but being made like unto the Son of God, he abides a priest continually.

4 You see how great this man was, to whom the patriarch Abraham even gave the tenth part of the chief spoils.

5 And those indeed of the sons of Levi receiving the priesthood have a commandment to tithe the people according to the law, that is, their brethren, even though having come out from the loins of Abraham:

6 but he who did not derive his lineage from them has tithed Abraham, and blessed him having the promises.

7 For without contradiction the less is blessed by the better.

8 And here indeed men dying, receive tithes; however there, he is witnessed to that he lives.

9 And, so to speak a word, Levi, the one receiving tithes, has also been tithed through Abraham.

10 For he was still in the loins of his father, when Melchizedek met him.