Hebrews 7:9

An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

And, so to speak, Levi, who collected a tenth [from the Israelites], paid a tenth through Abraham,

Cross References

Matthew 7:8

For every person who asks will [certainly] receive; and the one who looks will [certainly] find; and to the person who knocks, the door will [certainly] be opened.

Romans 5:12

For even before the Law of Moses, sin was [being committed] in the world. But man is not responsible for [his] sin when there is no law.

Hebrews 7:10

for when Melchizedek met him, he was still in Abraham’s body [i.e., Levi had not yet been born as a descendant of Abraham].

Hebrews 7:4

Now consider how great this man was, to whom the patriarch Abraham gave a tenth of what he had taken [in battle].

Hebrews 7:8

And in the one case, men here [on earth, that is, the Levites] who die, collect a tenth [from the rest of the Israelites], but there [i.e., in the case of Melchizedek] it is collected by someone about whom it is declared [by Scripture] that he continues to live.