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 be Abram of God Most High, Possessor of heaven and earth;

And blessed be God Most High, 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 could swear by no one greater, 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 strangers 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 you a great nation; I will bless you And make your name great; And you shall be a blessing.

"Please say you [are] my sister, that it may be well with me for your sake, and that I may live because of you."

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

"And I will make your descendants as the dust of the earth; so that if a man could number the dust of the earth, [then] your descendants 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 exceedingly fruitful; and I will make nations of you, and kings shall come from you.

"Also I give to you and your descendants after you the land in which you are a stranger, all the land of Canaan, as an everlasting possession; and I will be their God."

"blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply your descendants as the stars of the heaven and as the sand which [is] on the seashore; and your descendants shall possess the gate of their enemies.

"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.