Verse 4
Hebrews 7:4
Darby Translation
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Now consider how great this [personage] was, to whom [even] the patriarch Abraham gave a tenth out of the spoils.
Original Language Text
greek
Θεωρεῖτε δὲ πηλίκος οὗτος ⸀ᾧ δεκάτην Ἀβραὰμ ἔδωκεν ἐκ τῶν ἀκροθινίων ὁ πατριάρχης.
English Translation
But consider how great this man was to whom Abraham gave a tenth of the spoils, the patriarch.
AI translation from greek via gpt-4o-mini
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Chapter 7 Context
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For this Melchisedec, King of Salem, priest of the most high God (Elohim), who met Abraham returning...
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to whom Abraham gave also the tenth portion of all; first being interpreted King of righteousness, a...
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without father, without mother, without genealogy; having neither beginning of days nor end of life,...
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Now consider how great this [personage] was, to whom [even] the patriarch Abraham gave a tenth out o...
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And they indeed from among the sons of Levi, who receive the priesthood, have commandment to take ti...
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but he who has no genealogy from them has tithed Abraham, and blessed him who had the promises.
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But beyond all gainsaying, the inferior is blessed by the better.
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And here dying men receive tithes; but there [one] of whom the witness is that he lives;
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and, so to speak, through Abraham, Levi also, who received tithes, has been made to pay tithes.
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For he was yet in the loins of his father when Melchisedec met him.
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If indeed then perfection were by the Levitical priesthood, for the people had their law given to th...
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For, the priesthood being changed, there takes place of necessity a change of law also.
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For he, of whom these things are said, belongs to a different tribe, of which no one has [ever] been...
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For it is clear that our Lord has sprung out of Juda, as to which tribe Moses spake nothing as to pr...
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And it is yet more abundantly evident, since a different priest arises according to the similitude o...
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who has been constituted not according to law of fleshly commandment, but according to power of indi...
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For it is borne witness, *Thou* art a priest for ever according to the order of Melchisedec.
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For there is a setting aside of the commandment going before for its weakness and unprofitableness,
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(for the law perfected nothing,) and the introduction of a better hope by which we draw nigh to God...
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And by how much [it was] not without the swearing of an oath;
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(for they are become priests without the swearing of an oath, but he with the swearing of an oath, b...
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by so much Yashua (Jesus) became surety of a better covenant.
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And they have been many priests, on account of being hindered from continuing by death;
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but he, because of his continuing for ever, has the priesthood unchangeable.
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Whence also he is able to save completely those who approach by him to God (Elohim), always living t...
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For such a high priest became us, holy, harmless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and become high...
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who has not day by day need, as the high priests, first to offer up sacrifices for his own sins, the...
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For the law constitutes men high priests, having infirmity; but the word of the swearing of the oath...
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