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Melchizedek Blesses Abram

Genesis 14:20

In 11 translations

BSB
and blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand.” Then Abram gave Melchizedek a tenth of everything.
KJV
And blessed be the most high God, which hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand. And he gave him tithes of all.
WEB
Blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand.” Abram gave him a tenth of all.
ASV
and blessed be God Most High, who hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand. And he gave him a tenth of all.
LSV
and blessed [is] God Most High, who has delivered your adversaries into your hand”; and he gives to him a tenth of all.
YLT
and blessed [is] God Most High, who hath delivered thine adversaries into thy hand;' and he giveth to him a tenth of all.
DBY
And blessed be the Most High God, who has delivered thine enemies into thy hand. And he gave him the tenth of all.El
DRC
And blessed be the most high God, by whose protection the enemies are in thy hands. And he gave him the tithes of all.
GNV
And blessed be the most high God, which hath deliuered thine enemies into thine hand. And Abram gaue him tythe of all.
JPS
and blessed be God the Most High, who hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand.' And he gave him a tenth of all.
LXXE
and blessed be the most high God who delivered thine enemies into thy power. And Abram gave him the tithe of all.Gr. under hand to thee.

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Original-language editions

WLC
וּבָרוּךְ֙ אֵ֣ל עֶלְי֔וֹן אֲשֶׁר־מִגֵּ֥ן צָרֶ֖יךָ בְּיָדֶ֑ךָ וַיִּתֶּן־ל֥וֹ מַעֲשֵׂ֖ר מִכֹּֽל׃
LXX-Br
Καὶ εὐλογητὸς ὁ Θεὸς ὁ ὕψιστος, ὃς παρέδωκε τοὺς ἐχθρούς σου ὑποχειρίους σοι· καὶ ἔδωκεν αὐτῷ Ἅβραμ δεκάτην ἀπὸ πάντων.

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  • Genesis 28:22And this stone I have set up as a pillar will be God’s house, and of all that You give me I will surely give You a tenth.”
  • Nehemiah 13:12and all Judah brought a tenth of the grain, new wine, and oil into the storerooms.
  • Hebrews 7:4–9Consider how great Melchizedek was: Even the patriarch Abraham gave him a tenth of the plunder. Now the law commands the sons of Levi who become priests to collect a tenth from the people—that is, from their…
  • Malachi 3:10Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, so that there may be food in My house. Test Me in this,” says the LORD of Hosts. “See if I will not open the windows of heaven and pour out for you blessing without measure.
  • Deuteronomy 14:28At the end of every three years, bring a tenth of all your produce for that year and lay it up within your gates.
  • Numbers 28:26On the day of firstfruits, when you present an offering of new grain to the LORD during the Feast of Weeks, you are to hold a sacred assembly; you must not do any regular work.
  • Deuteronomy 12:17Within your gates you must not eat the tithe of your grain or new wine or oil, the firstborn of your herds or flocks, any of the offerings that you have vowed to give, or your freewill offerings or special gifts.
  • Genesis 24:27saying, “Blessed be the LORD, the God of my master Abraham, who has not withheld His kindness and faithfulness from my master. As for me, the LORD has led me on the journey to the house of my master’s relatives.”
  • Deuteronomy 14:23And you are to eat a tenth of your grain, new wine, and oil, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks, in the presence of the LORD your God at the place He will choose as a dwelling for His Name, so that you may…
  • Psalms 72:17–19May his name endure forever; may his name continue as long as the sun shines. In him may all nations be blessed; may they call him blessed. Blessed be the LORD God, the God of Israel, who alone does marvelous deeds.…
  • Psalms 44:3For it was not by their sword that they took the land; their arm did not bring them victory. It was by Your right hand, Your arm, and the light of Your face, because You favored them.
  • Romans 15:16to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles in the priestly service of the gospel of God, so that the Gentiles might become an offering acceptable to God, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.
  • Nehemiah 10:37Moreover, we will bring to the priests at the storerooms of the house of our God the firstfruits of our dough, of our grain offerings, of the fruit of all our trees, and of our new wine and oil. A tenth of our produce…
  • Malachi 3:8Will a man rob God? Yet you are robbing Me! But you ask, ‘How do we rob You?’ In tithes and offerings.
  • Luke 18:12I fast twice a week and pay tithes of all that I acquire.’
  • 2 Chronicles 31:5–6As soon as the order went out, the Israelites generously provided the firstfruits of the grain, new wine, oil, and honey, and of all the produce of the field, and they brought in an abundance—a tithe of everything. And…

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