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• See then how great Melchizedek was. Even Abraham gave him a tenth of the spoils! (Hebrews 7, 4)

• When the descendants of Levi are consecrated priests, they are commanded to collect tithes from their people, that is from their kindred, who are too, are descendants of Abraham. (Hebrews 7, 5)

• Here, however, Melchizedek, who does not belong to the family of the Levites, is given tithes from Abraham. Still more, he blesses him, the man of God's promise. (Hebrews 7, 6)

• When Abraham pays the tenth, it is, so to speak, the Levites, receivers of the tithes, who pay the tithe, (Hebrews 7, 9)

• because, in a way, Levi was still in the body of Abraham, his ancestor, when Melchizedek met him. (Hebrews 7, 10)

• Therefore, Jesus is our assurance of a better covenant. (Hebrews 7, 22)

• Now, however, Jesus enjoys a much higher ministry in being the mediator of a better covenant, founded on better promises. (Hebrews 8, 6)

• If all had been perfect in the first covenant, there would have been no need for another one. (Hebrews 8, 7)

• Yet God sees defects when he says: The days are coming - it is the word of the Lord - when I will draw up a new covenant with the people of Israel and with the people of Judah. (Hebrews 8, 8)

• It will not be like the covenant that I made with their ancestors on the day I took them by the hand and led them out of Egypt. They did not keep my covenant, and so I myself have forsaken them, says the Lord. (Hebrews 8, 9)

• But this is the covenant that I will make with the people of Israel in the days to come: I will put my laws into their minds and write them on their hearts. I will be their God and they will be my people. (Hebrews 8, 10)

• Here we are being told of a new covenant; which means that the first one had become obsolete, and what is obsolete and aging is soon to disappear. (Hebrews 8, 13)