In fact, we might almost say that even Levi the receiver of tithes paid tithes through Abraham;
Thus, then, sin came into the world by one man, and death came in by sin; and so death spread to all men, inasmuch as all men sinned.
Now mark the dignity of this man. The patriarch Abraham paid him a tenth of the spoils.
for every one who asks receives, the seeker finds, the door is opened to anyone who knocks.
Again, it is mortal men in the one case who receive tithes, while in the other it is one of whom the witness is that 'he lives.'
for he was still in the loins of his father when Melchizedek met him.