1 For 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;

2 To 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;

3 Without 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.

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

5 And 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]:

6 But 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.

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

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

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

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

11 If 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]?

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

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

14 For [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.

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

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

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

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

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

20 And 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])

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

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

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

25 For 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.

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

27 Who 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.

28 For 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.