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No one knows who Melchizedek’s father or mother was,[a] where he came from, when he was born, or when he died. Melchizedek is like the Son of God; he continues being a priest forever.

You can see how great Melchizedek was. Abraham, the great father, gave him a tenth of everything that he won in battle. Now the law says that those in the tribe of Levi who become priests must collect a tenth from the people—their own people—even though the priests and the people are from the family of Abraham.

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Footnotes

  1. 7:3 No . . . was Literally, “Melchizedek was without father, without mother, without genealogy.”

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