MSTC(i)
1 This Melchizedek, king of Salem — which being priest of the most high God, met Abraham, as he returned again from the slaughter of the kings, and blessed him:
2 to whom also Abraham gave tithes of all things — first is, by interpretation, king of righteousness, after that he is king of Salem, that is to say king of peace,
3 without father, without mother, without kin, and hath neither beginning of his time, neither yet end of his life: but is likened unto the son of God, and continueth a priest forever.
4 Consider what a man this was, unto whom the patriarch Abraham gave tithes of the spoils.
5 And verily those children of Levi, which receive the office of the priests, have a commandment to take according to the law, tithes of the people, that is to say, of their brethren, yea though they sprung out of the loins of Abraham.
6 But he whose kindred is not counted among them, received tithes of Abraham, and blessed him that had the promises.
7 And no man denieth but that which is less, receiveth blessing of him which is greater.
8 And here men that die receive tithes. But there he receiveth tithes of whom it is witnessed, that he liveth.
9 And to say the truth, Levi himself also which receiveth tithes, paid tithes in Abraham.
10 For he was yet in the loins of his father Abraham, when Melchizedek met him.