Hebrews 7:6
“But he whose descent is not counted from them received tithes of Abraham, and blessed him that had the promises.”
Now consider how great this man was, unto whom even the patriarch Abraham gave the tenth of the spoils.
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:
But he whose descent is not counted from them received tithes of Abraham, and blessed him that had the promises.
And without all contradiction the less is blessed of the better.
And here men that die receive tithes; but there he receiveth them, of whom it is witnessed that he liveth.
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Cross-References
“And he blessed him, and said, Blessed be Abram of the most high God, possessor of heaven and earth:”
“For all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us.”
“For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.”
“And they assembled all the congregation together on the first day of the second month, and they declared their pedigrees after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, by their polls.”
“So Joshua blessed them, and sent them away: and they went unto their tents.”