Hebrews 7:1-10

¹For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of God Most High, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him, ²to whom also Abraham divided a tenth part of all (being first, by interpretation, King of righteousness, and then also King of Salem, which is King of peace; ³without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but made like the Son of God), remains a priest continually.

⁴Now consider how great this man was, to whom even Abraham, the patriarch, gave a tenth out of the best spoils. ⁵They indeed of the sons of Levi who receive the priest`s office have a commandment to take tithes of the people according to the law, that is, of their brothers, though these have come out of the loins of Abraham, ⁶but he whose genealogy is not counted from them has taken tithes of Abraham, and has blessed him who has the promises. ⁷But without any dispute the less is blessed of the better. ⁸Here men who die receive tithes, but there one, of whom it is testified that he lives. ⁹So to say, through Abraham even Levi, who receives tithes, has paid tithes, ¹⁰for he was yet in the loins of his father when Melchizedek met him.