The Greatness of Melchizedek

7 For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of the most high God, who met Abraham as he^[a] was returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him,^{[b] 2} to whom also Abraham apportioned a tenth of everything^[c]—in the first place, his name is translated “king of righteousness,” and then also “king of Salem,” that is, “king of peace”; ³ without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but resembling the Son of God—he remains a priest for all time.