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¹And this Melchizedek, king of Salem, and the priest of the highest God, which met Abraham, as he turned again from the slaying of the kings, and blessed him;

²to whom also Abraham parted tithes of all things; first he is said king of rightwiseness, and afterward king of Salem, that is to say, king of peace,

³without father, without mother, without genealogy, neither having beginning of days, neither end of life; and he is likened to the Son of God, and dwelleth priest without end.

⁴But behold ye how great is this man, to whom Abraham the patriarch gave tithes of the best things.

⁵For men of the sons of Levi taking priesthood have commandment to take tithes of the people, by the law, that is to say, of their brethren, though also they went out of the loins of Abraham.

⁶But he whose generation is not numbered in them, took tithes of Abraham; and he blessed this Abraham, which had repromissions.

⁷Without any gainsaying, that that is less, is blessed of the better.

⁸And here deadly men take tithes; but there he beareth witnessing, that he liveth.

⁹And that it be said so, by Abraham also Levi, that took tithes, was tithed;

¹⁰and yet he was in his father’s loins, when Melchizedek met him.

¹¹Therefore if perfection was by the priesthood of Levi, for under him the people took the law, what yet was it needful, another priest to rise, by the order of Melchizedek, and not to be said by the order of Aaron?

¹²For why when the priesthood is translated, it is needful that also the translation of the law be made.

¹³But he in whom these things be said, is of another lineage, of which no man was priest to the altar.

¹⁴For it is open or it is openly known, that our Lord is born of Judah, in which lineage Moses spake nothing of priests.

¹⁵And more yet it is known, if by the order of Melchizedek another priest is risen up;

¹⁶which is not made by the law of fleshly commandment, but by the virtue of life that may not be undone or is indissoluble.

¹⁷For he witnesseth, That thou art a priest without end, by the order of Melchizedek;

¹⁸that reproving of the command-ment before-going is made, for the unfirmness and unprofit of it.

¹⁹For why the law brought nothing to perfection, but there is a bringing in of a better hope, by which we nigh to God.

²⁰And how great it is, not without swearing, that Christ is made priest after the order of Melchizedek;

²¹but the others be made priests without an oath; but this priest with an oath, by him that said to him, The Lord swore, and it shall not rue him, Thou art a priest without end, by the order of Melchizedek;

²²in so much Jesus is made better promiser of the better testament.

²³And soothly the others were made many priests, therefore for they were forbidden by death to dwell still;

²⁴but this man, for he dwelleth without end, hath an everlasting priesthood.

²⁵Wherefore also he may save without end, coming nigh by himself to God, and evermore liveth to pray for us.

²⁶For it beseemed that such a man were a bishop to us, holy, innocent, undefouled, clean, separated from sinful men, and made higher than heavens;

²⁷which hath not need each day, as priests, first for his own guilts to offer sacrifices, and afterward for the people; for he did this thing in offering himself once.

²⁸And the law ordained men priests having sickness, or frailty; but the word of swearing, which is after the law, ordained the Son perfect without end.