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Melchizedek and Abraham’s Tithe

Hebrews 7:1-10

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Chapter 7
1 For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of God Most High, who met Abraham returning from the defeat of the kings and blessed him, 2 to whom Abraham also gave a tenth of everything, first being interpreted as king of righteousness, then also as 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 made like the Son of God, he remains a priest forever. 4 Now see how great this one was, to whom even the patriarch Abraham gave a tenth of the top portions. 5 And on the one hand, those from the sons of Levi who take the priesthood have a commandment to tithe the people according to the Law, that is, their brothers, even though they have come out from the loins of Abraham. 6 but the one not counted from them received tithes from Abraham, and blessed the one who held the promises. 7 But without any opposition, the lesser is blessed by the greater. 8 And here men who die receive tithes, but there the one who was testified to live. 9 And so to speak, through Abraham even Levi, the one receiving the tithe, has paid the tithe, 10 For he was yet in the loins of his father when Melchizedek met him.