Hebrews 7:9-11

The Voice

⁹ I guess you could even say that Levi, who receives our tithes, originally paid tithes through Abraham ¹⁰ because he was still unborn and only a part of his ancestor when Abraham met Melchizedek.

¹¹ If a perfect method of reconciling with God—a perfect priesthood—had been found in the sons of Levi (a priesthood that communicated God’s law to the people), then why would the Scriptures speak of another priest, a priest according to the order of Melchizedek, instead of, say, from the order of Aaron? What would be the need for it? It would reflect a new way of relating to God