Even Levi, who receives tithes, paid tithes through Abraham, so to speak,
Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned—
And blessed be God Most High, Who has delivered your enemies into your hand.” And he gave him a tithe of all.
Now consider how great this man was, to whom even the patriarch Abraham gave a tenth of the spoils.
“When you have finished laying aside all the tithe of your increase in the third year—the year of tithing—and have given it to the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, so that they may eat within your gates and be filled,
For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.
Here mortal men 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.