Now consider how great this man was, to whom even the patriarch Abraham gave a tenth of the spoils.

And he blessed him and said: Blessed is Abram of the Most High God, Possessor of Heaven and earth;

and blessed is the Most High God, who has delivered your enemies into your hand. And he gave him a tithe of all.

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

And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise.

These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off were assured of them, embraced them and confessed that they were foreigners and pilgrims on the earth.

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

I will make of you a great nation; I will bless you and make your name great; and you shall be a blessing.

Please say that you are my sister, that it may be well with me for your sake, and my soul shall live because of you.

And after Lot had separated from him, Jehovah said to Abram: Lift up your eyes now and look from the place where you are, northward, southward, eastward, and westward;

And I will make your seed as the dust of the earth; so that if a man could count the dust of the earth, then your seed also could be numbered.

As for Me, behold, My covenant is with you, and you shall be a father of many nations.

I will make you abundantly exceedingly fruitful; and I will make nations of you, and kings shall come forth from you.

Also I have given unto you and your seed after you the land in which you sojourn, all the land of Canaan, as an enduring possession; and I will be their God.

that in blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply your seed as the stars of the heavens and as the sand which is on the seashore. And your Seed shall possess the gate of His enemies.

And in your Seed all the nations of the earth shall 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 Seed all the families of the earth shall be blessed.

For the promise that he would be the heir of the world was not to Abraham or to his seed through the Law, but through the righteousness of faith.

who are Israelites, to whom pertain the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the Law, the service of God, and the promises;

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