tcent Hebrews:7:1-10
tcent@Hebrews:7:1 @ For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of the Most High God, met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him.
tcent@Hebrews:7:2 @ And to him Abraham gave a tenth part of everything. He is first, by translation of his name, king of righteousness, and then he is also king of Salem, that is, king of peace.
tcent@Hebrews:7:3 @ Without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but made like the Son of God, he remains a priest continually.
tcent@Hebrews:7:4 @ See how great he was! Even the patriarch Abraham gave him a tenth of the spoils.
tcent@Hebrews:7:5 @ And those descendants of Levi who receive the priestly office have a commandment in the law to take a tenth from the people, that is, from their brethren, though these also are descended from Abraham.
tcent@Hebrews:7:6 @ But this man whose genealogy is not derived from them received a tenth from Abraham and blessed him who had the promises.
tcent@Hebrews:7:7 @ And without dispute the lesser person is blessed by the greater.
tcent@Hebrews:7:8 @ In this case tithes are received by mortal men, but in that case by one of whom it is witnessed that he lives on.
tcent@Hebrews:7:9 @ One might even say that Levi himself, who receives tithes, paid tithes through Abraham,
tcent@Hebrews:7:10 @ for he was still in the loins of his ancestor when Melchizedek met him.