And as I may so say, Levi also, who receives tithes, paid tithes in Abraham.
And blessed be the most high God, which has delivered your enemies into your hand. And he gave him tithes of all.
For every one that asks receives; and he that seeks finds; and to him that knocks it shall be opened.
Why, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed on all men, for that all have sinned:
When you have made an end of tithing all the tithes of your increase the third year, which is the year of tithing, and have given it to the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, that they may eat within your gates, and be filled;
For he was yet in the loins of his father, when Melchisedec met him.
Now consider how great this man was, to whom even the patriarch Abraham gave the tenth of the spoils.
And here men that die receive tithes; but there he receives them, of whom it is witnessed that he lives.