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1 This “King Melchizedek of Salem, priest of the Most High God, met Abraham as he was returning from defeating the kings and blessed him”; 2 and to him Abraham apportioned “one-tenth of everything.” His name, in the first place, means “king of righteousness”; next he is also king of Salem, that is, “king of peace.” Hebrews 7:1-2, NRSV Catholic Edition. Copyright © 1989, 1993 by the National Council of the Churches of Christ.
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