But observe how great this [man was], to whom even the patriarch Abraham gave a tenth from the spoils.

And he blessed Abram, and said, Blessed be Abram of the Most High God, who made heaven and earth,

and blessed be the Most High God, who delivered your enemies into your power. And Abram gave him a tithe of all.

For when God made a promise to Abraham, since He could swear by no one greater, He swore by Himself,

And so, after he had been patient, he obtained the promise.

These all died according to faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off and welcoming [them], and confessing that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

By faith Abraham, when he was tested, had offered up Isaac, and he that received the promises offered up his only begotten [son],

And I will make you a great nation, and I will bless you and magnify your name, and you shall be blessed.

Say, therefore, I am his sister, that it may be well with me on account of you, and my soul shall live because of you.

And God said to Abram after Lot was separated from him, Look up with your eyes, and behold from the place where you now are northward and southward, and eastward and seaward;

And I will make your seed like the dust of the earth; if anyone is able to number the dust of the earth, then shall your seed be numbered.

And I, behold! My covenant is with you, and you shall be a father of a many nations.

And I will increase you very exceedingly, and I will make nations of you, and kings shall come out of you.

And I will give to you and to your seed after you the land in which you sojourn, even all the land of Canaan for an everlasting possession, and I will be to them a God.

surely blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and as the sand which is by the shore of the sea, and your seed shall inherit the cities of their enemies.

And in your seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice.

You are sons of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying to Abraham, 'And in your offspring all the families of the earth shall be blessed.'

For the promise that he should be heir of the world was not to Abraham or to his seed through [the] law, but through [the] righteousness of faith.

who are Israelites, of whom are the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the law-giving, and the worship, and the promises;

Now to Abraham and his Seed were the promises spoken. He does not say, "And to seeds," as of many, but as of one, "And to your Seed," who is Christ.