Genesis 14:17-20

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Melchizedek’s Blessing

¹⁷After Abram returned from defeating Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him, the king of Sodom went out to meet him in the Shaveh Valley (that is, the King’s Valley^(A)). ¹⁸Melchizedek, king of Salem,^[a]^(B) brought out bread and wine; he was a priest to God Most High.^(C) ¹⁹He blessed him and said:

Abram is blessed by God Most High,
Creator^[b] of heaven and earth,
²⁰and blessed be God Most High
who has handed over your enemies to you.

And Abram gave him a tenth of everything.^(D)

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Footnotes

14:18 = Jerusalem
14:19 Or Possessor

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