One might even say that Levi himself, who receives tithes, paid tithes through Abraham,
Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned—
and blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand!” And Abram gave him a tenth of everything.
See how great this man was to whom Abraham the patriarch gave a tenth of the spoils!
“When you have finished paying all the tithe of your produce in the third year, which is the year of tithing, giving it to the Levite, the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, so that they may eat within your towns and be filled,
For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.
In the one case tithes are received by mortal men, but in the other case, by one of whom it is testified that he lives.
for he was still in the loins of his ancestor when Melchizedek met him.