For he in no place taketh on him the angels: but the seed of Abraham taketh he on him.

For when God made promise to Abraham, because he had no greater thing to swear by, he sware by himself,

This Melchizedek, king of Salem - which being priest of the most high God, met Abraham, as he returned again from the slaughter of the kings, and blessed him:

to whom also Abraham gave tithes of all things - first is, by interpretation, king of righteousness, after that he is king of Salem, that is to say king of peace,

Consider what a man this was, unto whom the patriarch Abraham gave tithes of the spoils.

And verily those children of Levi, which receive the office of the priests, have a commandment to take according to the law, tithes of the people, that is to say, of their brethren, yea though they sprung out of the loins of Abraham.

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

And to say the truth, Levi himself also which receiveth tithes, paid tithes in Abraham.

For he was yet in the loins of his father Abraham, when Melchizedek met him.

By faith Abraham, when he was called, obeyed to go out into a place which he should afterward receive to inheritance, and he went out, not knowing whither he should go.

By faith Abraham offered up Isaac, when he was tempted, and he offered him being his only begotten son, which had received the promises: