Through Abraham even Levi, the one receiving tithes, has paid the tithe, so to speak—
and blessed be El Elyon, Who gave over your enemies Into your hand.” Then Abram gave him a tenth of everything.
For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it shall be opened.
So then, just as sin came into the world through one man and death through sin, in the same way death spread to all men because all sinned.
“When you finish tithing the full tenth of your produce in the third year, the year of the tithe, you are to give it to the Levite, to the outsider, to the orphan and to the widow, so that they may eat within your town gates and be satisfied.
for he was still in his father’s loins when Melechizedek met him.
Now see how great this man is! Even Abraham the patriarch gave him a tenth out of the plunder.
In one case, dying men receive tithes; but in the other, one about whom it is testified that he lives on.