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The Priestly Order of Melchizedek

This “Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of the Most High God, met Abraham as he was returning from defeating the kings and blessed him,”(A)

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18 And King Melchizedek of Salem brought out bread and wine; he was priest of God Most High.[a](A) 19 He blessed him and said,

“Blessed be Abram by God Most High,[b]
    maker of heaven and earth,(B)
20 and blessed be God Most High,[c]
    who has delivered your enemies into your hand!”

And Abram gave him one-tenth of everything.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. 14.18 Heb El Elyon
  2. 14.19 Heb El Elyon
  3. 14.20 Heb El Elyon

20 where Jesus, a forerunner on our behalf, has entered, having become a high priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.(A)

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What God Requires

“With what shall I come before the Lord
    and bow myself before God on high?
Shall I come before him with burnt offerings,
    with calves a year old?

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I cry to God Most High,
    to God who fulfills his purpose for me.(A)

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His abode has been established in Salem,
    his dwelling place in Zion.(A)

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and he shouted at the top of his voice, “What have you to do with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I adjure you by God, do not torment me.”(A)

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18 As for you, O king, the Most High God gave your father Nebuchadnezzar kingship, greatness, glory, and majesty.(A)

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35 They remembered that God was their rock,
    the Most High God their redeemer.(A)

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14 Therefore the well was called Beer-lahai-roi;[a] it lies between Kadesh and Bered.

15 Hagar bore Abram a son, and Abram named his son, whom Hagar bore, Ishmael.(A) 16 Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore him[b] Ishmael.

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Footnotes

  1. 16.14 That is, well of the living one who sees me
  2. 16.16 Heb Abram

The signs and wonders that the Most High God has worked for me I am pleased to recount.(A)

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17 While she followed Paul and us, she would cry out, “These men are slaves of the Most High God, who proclaim to you[a] the way of salvation.”(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 16.17 Other ancient authorities read to us

21 He was driven from human society, and his mind was made like that of an animal. His dwelling was with the wild asses, he was fed grass like oxen, and his body was bathed with the dew of heaven, until he learned that the Most High God has sovereignty over the kingdom of mortals and sets over it whomever he will.(A)

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Who has roused a victor from the east,
    summoned him to his service?
He delivers up nations to him
    and tramples kings under foot;
he makes them like dust with his sword,
    like driven stubble with his bow.(A)
He pursues them and passes on safely,
    scarcely touching the path with his feet.

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56 Yet they tested the Most High God
    and rebelled against him.
    They did not observe his decrees(A)

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