NEW TESTAMENT · VERSE 6

Hebrews 7:6

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but he whose genealogy is not counted from them has accepted tithes from Abraham, and has blessed him who has the promises.

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Hebrews 7:6 in context

Hebrews 7:3–9

3

without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but made like the Son of God), remains a priest continually.

4

Now consider how great this man was, to whom even Abraham the patriarch gave a tenth out of the best plunder.

5

They indeed of the sons of Levi who receive the priest’s office have a commandment to take tithes from the people according to the law, that is, of their brothers, though these have come out of the body of Abraham,

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but he whose genealogy is not counted from them has accepted tithes from Abraham, and has blessed him who has the promises.

7

But without any dispute the lesser is blessed by the greater.

8

Here people who die receive tithes, but there one receives tithes of whom it is testified that he lives.

9

We can say that through Abraham even Levi, who receives tithes, has paid tithes,

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