Hebrews 7:10

New American Bible - revised edition

for he was still in his father’s loins when Melchizedek met him.

Cross References

Genesis 35:11

Then God said to him: I am God Almighty; be fruitful and multiply. A nation, indeed an assembly of nations, will stem from you, and kings will issue from your loins.

Genesis 46:26

Jacob’s people who came to Egypt—his direct descendants, not counting the wives of Jacob’s sons—numbered sixty-six persons in all.

1 Kings 8:19

But it is not you who will build the house, but your son, who comes from your loins; he shall build the house for my name.

Hebrews 5:6

just as he says in another place: “You are a priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.”

Hebrews 7:11

If, then, perfection came through the levitical priesthood, on the basis of which the people received the law, what need would there still have been for another priest to arise according to the order of Melchizedek, and not reckoned according to the order of Aaron?

Hebrews 7:5

The descendants of Levi who receive the office of priesthood have a commandment according to the law to exact tithes from the people, that is, from their brothers, although they also have come from the loins of Abraham.

Hebrews 7:9

One might even say that Levi himself, who receives tithes, was tithed through Abraham,