³ without father or mother or family, having neither beginning of days nor end of life. But he is likened to the Son of God and continues as a priest forever.

⁴ Now consider how great this man was to whom even the patriarch Abraham gave a tithe of the spoils.

⁵ For indeed those who are the children of Levi (who receive the office of the priesthood) have a commandment to take tithes from the people according to the Law (that is, from their brothers), though they came out of the loins of Abraham.