And if I may say so, Levi, also, who receives tithes, paid tithes in Abraham.
Therefore, even as through one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin, and so death passed on all men inasmuch as all sinned:
And blessed be the most high God, who has delivered your enemies into your hand. And he gave him tithes of all.
Now consider how great this man was, to whom even the patriarch Abraham gave the tenth of the spoils.
When you have made an end of tithing all the tithes of your increase the third year, the year of tithing, and have given it to the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow (that they may eat inside your gates and be filled),
For each one who asks receives; and he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, it shall be opened.
And here men who die receive tithes; but there he receives them, of whom it is witnessed that he lives.
For he was still in the loins of his father when Melchizedek met him.