1
This is the account preserved concerning Malki-Tsedeq (Melchizedek), king of Shalem.
2
Shalem was the city later identified in the recension with Yerushalayim, and the account says that it received its name from the elder Shalem who established it.
3
Shalem fathered Ashla; Ashla fathered Malkel; and Malkel fathered two sons.
4
The elder son received his father’s name, Malkel. The younger was named Malki-Tsedeq.
5
Thus the Syriac witness gives him a human house and ancestry; it does not present him as an uncreated being.