For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of the Most High God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings, and blessed him,

but he whose genealogy is not reckoned from them has taken tithes of Abraham, and has blessed him who had the promises.

And, without any dispute, the less is blessed by the better.

By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau, concerning things about to be.

By faith Jacob, when dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph; and he worshiped leaning on the top of his staff.