And (as it may be said) even Levi who received tithes, paid tithes in Abraham:
Wherefore as by one man sin entered into this world, and by sin death; and so death passed upon all men, in whom all have sinned.
And blessed be the most high God, by whose protection the enemies are in thy hands. And he gave him the tithes of all.
Now consider how great this man is, to whom also Abraham the patriarch gave tithes out of the principal things.
When thou hast made an end of tithing all thy fruits, in the third year of tithes thou shalt give it to the Levite, and to the stranger, and to the fatherless, and to the widow, that they may eat within thy gates, and be filled.
For every one that asketh, receiveth: and he that seeketh, findeth: and to him that knocketh, it shall be opened.
And here indeed, men that die, receive thithes: but there he hath witness, that he liveth.
For he was yet in the loins of his father, when Melchisedech met him.