¹For this Malki-Tzedek [king of righteousness] , king of Salem, priest of the most high God-The Father, who met Avraham [Exalted Father] returning from the slaughter of the kings, and Blessed (Favored by God; happy; prosperous) him;

²To whom also Avraham [Exalted Father] gave a tenth part of all; first being by interpretation King of righteousness, and after that also King of Salem, which is, King of peace;

³Without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life; but made like unto the Son of God-The Father; abides a priest continually.

⁴Now consider how great this man [was] , unto whom even the patriarch Avraham [Exalted Father] gave the tenth of the spoils.

⁵And truly they that are of the sons of Levi (Levite) [Adhesion, Joiner] , who receive the office of the priesthood, have a commandment to take tithes of the people according to the law, that is, of their brethren, though they come out of the waist of Avraham [Exalted Father] :

⁶But he whose descent is not counted from them received tithes of Avraham [Exalted Father] , and Blessed (Favored by God; happy; prosperous) him that had the promises.

⁷And without all contradiction the less is Blessed (Favored by God; happy; prosperous) of the better.

⁸And here men that die receive tithes; but there he [receives them] , of whom it is witnessed that he lives.

⁹And as I may so say, Levi (Levite) [Adhesion, Joiner] also, who receives tithes, payed tithes in Avraham [Exalted Father] .

¹⁰For he was yet in the waist of his father, when Malki-Tzedek [king of righteousness] met him.

¹¹If therefore perfection were by the Levitical priesthood, (for under it the people received the law,) what further need [was there] that another priest should rise after the order of Malki-Tzedek [king of righteousness] , and not be called after the order of Aharon [Bright, Very High] ?

¹²For the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the law.

¹³For he of whom these things are spoken pertains to another tribe, of which no man gave attendance at the altar.

¹⁴For [it is] evident that our Lord - Kurios sprang out of Y’hudah [praised] ; of which tribe Moshe [He Who Draws Out Of The Waters] spoke nothing concerning priesthood.

¹⁵And it is yet far more evident: for that after the similitude of Malki-Tzedek [king of righteousness] there arises another priest,

¹⁶Who is made, not after the law of a carnal (of the flesh, sensual) commandment, but after the power of an endless life.

¹⁷For he testifies, youi [are] a priest forever after the order of Malki-Tzedek [king of righteousness] .

¹⁸For there is truly a disannulling of the commandment going before for the weakness and unprofitableness thereof.

¹⁹For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope [did] ; by the which we draw near unto God-The Father.

²⁰And inasmuch as not without an oath [he was made priest] :

²¹(For those priests were made without an oath; but this with an oath by him that said unto him, The Lord - Kurios swore and will not repent, youi [are] a priest forever after the order of Malki-Tzedek [king of righteousness] )

²²By so much was Yeshua [God is Salvation] made a surety of a better testament (a covenant, ratified in death) .

²³And they truly were many priests, because they were not suffered to continue by reason of death:

²⁴But this [man] , because he continues ever, has an unchangeable priesthood.

²⁵For what reason he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God-The Father by him, seeing he ever lives to make intercession for them.

²⁶For such an High Priest became us, [who is] holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;

²⁷Who needs not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people’s: for this he did once, when he offered up himself.

²⁸For the law makes men high priests which have infirmity; but the word of the oath, which was since the law, [makes] the Son, who is consecrated forevermore.