One might say that Levi also, who receives tithes, paid tithes through Abraham,
and blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand.” Then Abram gave him one-tenth of everything.
For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks, it will be opened.
Therefore as sin came into the world through one man and death through sin, so death has spread to all men, because all have sinned.
When you have finished tithing all the tithes of your income the third year, which is the year of tithing, and have given it to the Levite, the foreigner, the orphan, and the widow, that they may eat within your towns and be satisfied,
for he was still in the loins of his father when Melchizedek met Abraham.
Now consider how great this man was, to whom even the patriarch Abraham gave one-tenth of the spoils.
In the one case mortal men receive tithes, but in the other he of whom it is witnessed that he is alive receives them.