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1 For this Melchisedec, king of Salem, priest of the most high God, who met Abra­ham re­turn­ing from the slaugh­ter of the kings, and blessed him; 2 To whom also Abra­ham gave a tenth part of all; first be­ing by in­ter­pre­ta­tion King of righ­teous­ness, and af­ter that also King of Salem, which is, King of peace; 3 With­out fa­ther, with­out moth­er, with­out de­scent, hav­ing nei­ther be­gin­ning of days, nor end of life; but made like unto the Son of God; abideth a priest con­tin­u­al­ly. 4 Now con­sid­er how great this man was, unto whom even the pa­tri­arch Abra­ham gave the tenth of the spoils. 5 And ver­i­ly they that are of the sons of Levi, who re­ceive the of­fice of the priest­hood, have a com­mand­ment to take tithes of the peo­ple ac­cord­ing to the law, that is, of their brethren, though they come out of the loins of Abra­ham: 6 But he whose de­scent is not count­ed from them re­ceived tithes of Abra­ham, and blessed him that had the promis­es. 7 And with­out all con­tra­dic­tion the less is blessed of the bet­ter. 8 And here men that die re­ceive tithes; but there he re­ceiveth them, of whom it is wit­nessed that he liveth. 9 And as I may so say, Levi al­so, who re­ceiveth tithes, payed tithes in Abra­ham. 10 For he was yet in the loins of his fa­ther, when Melchisedec met him. 11 If there­fore per­fec­tion were by the Levit­i­cal priest­hood, (for un­der it the peo­ple re­ceived the law, ) what fur­ther need was there that an­oth­er priest should rise af­ter the or­der of Melchisedec, and not be called af­ter the or­der of Aaron? 12 For the priest­hood be­ing changed, there is made of ne­ces­si­ty a change also of the law. 13 For he of whom these things are spo­ken per­taineth to an­oth­er tribe, of which no man gave at­ten­dance at the al­tar. 14 For it is ev­i­dent that our Lord sprang out of Ju­da; of which tribe Moses spake noth­ing con­cern­ing priest­hood. 15 And it is yet far more ev­i­dent: for that af­ter the simil­i­tude of Melchisedec there ariseth an­oth­er priest, 16 Who is made, not af­ter the law of a car­nal com­mand­ment, but af­ter the pow­er of an end­less life. 17 For he tes­ti­fi­eth, Thou art a priest for ever af­ter the or­der of Melchisedec. 18 For there is ver­i­ly a dis­an­nulling of the com­mand­ment go­ing be­fore for the weak­ness and un­prof­itable­ness there­of. 19 For the law made noth­ing per­fect, but the bring­ing in of a bet­ter hope did; by the which we draw nigh unto God. 20 And inas­much as not with­out an oath he was made priest: 21 (For those priests were made with­out an oath; but this with an oath by him that said unto him, The Lord sware and will not re­pent, Thou art a priest for ever af­ter the or­der of Melchisedec:) 22 By so much was Je­sus made a sure­ty of a bet­ter tes­ta­ment. 23 And they tru­ly were many priests, be­cause they were not suf­fered to con­tin­ue by rea­son of death: 24 But this man, be­cause he con­tin­ueth ev­er, hath an un­change­able priest­hood. 25 Where­fore he is able also to save them to the ut­ter­most that come unto God by him, see­ing he ever liveth to make in­ter­ces­sion for them. 26 For such an high priest be­came us, who is holy, harm­less, un­de­filed, sep­a­rate from sin­ners, and made high­er than the heav­ens; 27 Who needeth not dai­ly, as those high priests, to of­fer up sac­ri­fice, first for his own sins, and then for the people's: for this he did once, when he of­fered up him­self. 28 For the law maketh men high priests which have in­fir­mi­ty; but the word of the oath, which was since the law, maketh the Son, who is con­se­crat­ed for ev­er­more.