One might even say that Levi himself, who receives tithes, paid tithes through Abraham,
and blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand!” And Abram gave him one-tenth of everything.
For everyone who asks receives, and everyone who searches finds, and for everyone who knocks, the door will be opened.
Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death came through sin, and so death spread to all because all have sinned—
“When you have finished paying all the tithe of your produce in the third year (which is the year of the tithe), giving it to the Levites, the aliens, the orphans, and the widows, so that they may eat their fill within your towns,
for he was still in the loins of his ancestor when Melchizedek met him.
See how great he is! Even Abraham the patriarch gave him a tenth of the spoils.
In the one case, tithes are received by those who are mortal; in the other, by one of whom it is testified that he lives.