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

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

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

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