Now observe how great is this [Melchisedec], to whom even Abraham the patriarch gave the tenth of the spoils.

Men and brethren, permit me to speak with freedom to you concerning the patriarch David, that he hath been both dead and buried, and his sepulchre is with us to this day.

And he gave him the covenant of circumcision: and so he begat Isaac, and circumcised him on the eighth day; and Isaac Jacob, and Jacob the twelve patriarchs.

And the patriarchs, envious, sold Joseph into Egypt: yet God was with him,