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Genesis Chapter 14 verse 20 Holy Bible

ASV Genesis 14:20

and blessed be God Most High, who hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand. And he gave him a tenth of all.
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BBE Genesis 14:20

And let the Most High God be praised, who has given into your hands those who were against you. Then Abram gave him a tenth of all the goods he had taken.
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DARBY Genesis 14:20

And blessed be the Most High ùGod, who has delivered thine enemies into thy hand. And he gave him the tenth of all.
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KJV Genesis 14:20

And blessed be the most high God, which hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand. And he gave him tithes of all.
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WBT Genesis 14:20

And blessed be the most high God, who hath delivered thy enemies into thy hand. And he gave him tithes of all.
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WEB Genesis 14:20

and blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand." Abram gave him a tenth of all.
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YLT Genesis 14:20

and blessed `is' God Most High, who hath delivered thine adversaries into thy hand;' and he giveth to him a tenth of all.
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 20. - And blessed be the most high God (cf. Genesis 9:56), who hath delivered - miggen, a word peculiar to poetry - nathan (cf. Proverbs 4:9; Hosea 11:8) - thine enemies - tsarecha, also a poetical expression - oyeb (cf. Deuteronomy 32:27; Job 16:9; Psalm 81:15) - into thy hand. And he - not Melchisedeck (Jewish interpreters), but Abram (Josephus, LXX., Jonathan, Hebrews 7:6) - gave him (not Abram, but Melchisedeck) tithes "tenths." These, being the customary offering to the Deity, were an acknowledgment of the Divine priesthood of Melchisedeck. The practice of paying tithes, primarily a voluntary tax for the servants of the sanctuary, appears to have obtained among different nations from the remotest antiquity (vide Dr. Ginsburg in 'Kitto's Cyclopedia,' art. Tithes). The tithal law was afterwards incorporated among the Mosaic statutes (Leviticus 27:30-33; Numbers 18:31-32) - of all - the spoils which he had taken (Hebrews 7:4.)

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(20) He gave him tithes.--Abram thus consecrated the war by a thank-offering to God, Who had given him the victory. But he also, by paying tithes, acknowledged the priesthood of Melchizedek, and that the God Whom he served was the true God. See Hebrews 7:4-11.