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The Letter to the Hebrews, Chapter 7
{7:1} For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of God Most High,
who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed
him, {7:2} to 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; {7:3} without 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. {7:4} Now
consider how great this man was, to whom even Abraham, the patriarch,
gave a tenth out of the best spoils. {7:5} They indeed of the sons of
Levi who receive the priest's office have a commandment to take tithes
of the people according to the Torah, that is, of their brothers,
though these have come out of the body of Abraham, {7:6} but he whose
genealogy is not counted from them has accepted tithes from Abraham,
and has blessed him who has the promises. {7:7} But without any
dispute the lesser is blessed by the greater. {7:8} Here people who
die receive tithes, but there one receives tithes of whom it is
testified that he lives. {7:9} We can say that through Abraham even
Levi, who receives tithes, has paid tithes, {7:10} for he was yet in
the body of his father when Melchizedek met him. {7:11} Now if there
were perfection through the Levitical priesthood (for under it the
people have received the law), what further need was there for another
priest to arise after the order of Melchizedek, and not be called
after the order of Aaron? {7:12} For the priesthood being changed,
there is of necessity a change made also in the law. {7:13} For he of
whom these things are said belongs to another tribe, from which no one
has officiated at the altar. {7:14} For it is evident that our Lord
has sprung out of Judah, about which tribe Moses spoke nothing
concerning priesthood. {7:15} This is yet more abundantly evident, if
after the likeness of Melchizedek there arises another priest, {7:16}
who has been made, not after the law of a fleshly commandment, but
after the power of an endless life: {7:17} for it is testified,
"You are a priest forever,
according to the order of Melchizedek."[1]
{7:18} For there is an annulling of a foregoing commandment because
of its weakness and uselessness {7:19} (for the law made nothing
perfect), and a bringing in of a better hope, through which we draw
near to God. {7:20} Inasmuch as he was not made priest without the
taking of an oath {7:21} (for they indeed have been made priests
without an oath), but he with an oath by him that says of him,
"The Lord swore and will not change his mind,
'You are a priest forever,
according to the order of Melchizedek.'"[2]
{7:22} By so much, Yeshua has become the collateral of a better
covenant. {7:23} Many, indeed, have been made priests, because they
are hindered from continuing by death. {7:24} But he, because he lives
forever, has his priesthood unchangeable. {7:25} Therefore he is also
able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him,
seeing that he lives forever to make intercession for them.
{7:26} For such a high priest was fitting for us: holy, guiltless,
undefiled, separated from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;
{7:27} who doesn't need, like those high priests, to offer up
sacrifices daily, first for his own sins, and then for the sins of the
people. For he did this once for all, when he offered up himself.
{7:28} For the Torah appoints men as high priests who have weakness,
but the word of the oath which came after the Torah appoints a Son
forever who has been perfected.
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Footnotes:
[1] {7:17} Psalm 110:4
[2] {7:21} Psalm 110:4
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