Hebrews 7:6
Good News Translation
Melchizedek was not descended from Levi, but he collected one tenth from Abraham and blessed him, the man who received God's promises.

New Revised Standard Version
But this man, who does not belong to their ancestry, collected tithes from Abraham and blessed him who had received the promises.

Contemporary English Version
Although Melchizedek wasn't a descendant of Levi, Abraham gave him a tenth of what he had. Then Melchizedek blessed Abraham, who had been given God's promise.

New American Bible
But he who was not of their ancestry received tithes from Abraham and blessed him who had received the promises.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But he, whose pedigree is not numbered among them, received tithes of Abraham and blessed him that had the promises.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

descent.

Hebrews 7:3 Without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but likened unto the Son of God, continueth a priest for ever.

received.

Hebrews 7:4 Now consider how great this man is, to whom also Abraham the patriarch gave tithes out of the principal things.

Genesis 14:19,20 Blessed him, and said: Blessed be Abram by the most high God, who created heaven and earth. . . .

had.

Hebrews 6:13-15 For God making promises to Abraham, because he had no one greater by whom he might swear, swore by himself, . . .

Hebrews 11:13,17 All these died according to faith, not having received the promises but beholding them afar off and saluting them and confessing that they are pilgrims and strangers on the earth. . . .

Genesis 12:2,13 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and magnify thy name, and thou shalt be blessed. . . .

Genesis 13:14-17 And the Lord said to Abram, after Lot was separated from him: Lift up thy eyes, and look from the place wherein thou now art, to the north and to the south, to the east and to the west. . . .

Genesis 17:4-8 And God said to him: I am, and my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father of many nations. . . .

Genesis 22:17,18 I will bless thee, and I will multiply thy seed as the stars of heaven, and as the sand that is by the sea shore; thy seed shall possess the gates of their enemies. . . .

Acts 3:25 You are the children of the prophets and of the testament which God made to our fathers, saying to Abraham: And in thy seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed.

Romans 4:13 For not through the law was the promise to Abraham or to his seed, that he should be heir of the world: but through the justice of faith.

Romans 9:4 Who are Israelites: to whom belongeth the adoption as of children and the glory and the testament and the giving of the law and the service of God and the promises:

Galatians 3:16 To Abraham were the promises made and to his seed. He saith not: And to his seeds as of many. But as of one: And to thy seed, which is Christ.

Context
Melchizedek and Abraham
5And indeed they that are of the sons of Levi, who receive the priesthood, have a commandment to take tithes of the people according to the law, that is to say, of their brethren: though they themselves also came out of the loins of Abraham. 6But he, whose pedigree is not numbered among them, received tithes of Abraham and blessed him that had the promises. 7And without all contradiction, that which is less is blessed by the better.…
Cross References
Romans 4:13
For not through the law was the promise to Abraham or to his seed, that he should be heir of the world: but through the justice of faith.

Hebrews 7:1
For this Melchisedech was king of Salem, priest of the most high God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him:

Hebrews 7:3
Without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but likened unto the Son of God, continueth a priest for ever.

Hebrews 7:7
And without all contradiction, that which is less is blessed by the better.

Hebrews 7:5
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