Hebrews 7:1–10

For this Melchisedech was king of Salem, priest of the most high God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him:

²To whom also Abraham divided the tithes of all: who first indeed by interpretation is king of justice: and then also king of Salem, that is, king of peace:

³Without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but likened unto the Son of God, continueth a priest for ever.

⁴Now consider how great this man is, to whom also Abraham the patriarch gave tithes out of the principal things.

⁵And indeed they that are of the sons of Levi, who receive the priesthood, have a commandment to take tithes of the people according to the law, that is to say, of their brethren: though they themselves also came out of the loins of Abraham.

⁶But he, whose pedigree is not numbered among them, received tithes of Abraham and blessed him that had the promises.

⁷And without all contradiction, that which is less is blessed by the better.

⁸And here indeed, men that die receive tithes: but there, he hath witness that he liveth.

⁹And (as it may be said) even Levi who received tithes paid tithes in Abraham:

¹⁰For he was yet in the loins of his father when Melchisedech met him.