3 Without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but made like the Son of God, he continually remains a priest.
4 Now consider how great this man was, to whom even the patriarch Abraham gave a tenth of the spoils.
5 Surely the sons of Levi, who receive the office of the priesthood, have a command to take tithes of the people according to the law, that is, from their brothers, though they also come from the seed of Abraham.
6 But this man, whose descent is not numbered among them, received tithes from Abraham and blessed him who had the promises.
7 Without question, the inferior is blessed by the superior.
8 In the one case mortal men receive tithes, but in the other he of whom it is witnessed that he is alive receives them.
9 One might say that Levi also, who receives tithes, paid tithes through Abraham,