Hebrews 7:9

New International Version

One might even say that Levi, who collects the tenth, paid the tenth through Abraham,

Cross References

Genesis 14:20

And praise be to God Most High, who delivered your enemies into your hand.” Then Abram gave him a tenth of everything.

Matthew 7:8

For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.

Romans 5:12

Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all people, because all sinned—

Deuteronomy 26:12

When you have finished setting aside a tenth of all your produce in the third year, the year of the tithe, you shall give it to the Levite, the foreigner, the fatherless and the widow, so that they may eat in your towns and be satisfied.

Hebrews 7:10

because when Melchizedek met Abraham, Levi was still in the body of his ancestor.

Hebrews 7:4

Just think how great he was: Even the patriarch Abraham gave him a tenth of the plunder!

Hebrews 7:8

In the one case, the tenth is collected by people who die; but in the other case, by him who is declared to be living.