And as I may so say, Levi also, who receiveth tithes, payed tithes in Abraham.
Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:
and blessed be the most high God, which hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand. And he gave him tithes of all.
Now consider how great this man was, unto whom even the patriarch Abraham gave the tenth of the spoils.
When thou hast made an end of tithing all the tithes of thine increase the third year, which is the year of tithing, and hast given it unto the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and 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 men that die receive tithes; but there he receiveth them, of whom it is witnessed that he liveth.
For he was yet in the loins of his father, when Melchisedec met him.