and blessed be El `Elyon, who has delivered your enemies into your hand.* Avram gave him a tenth of all.
Hebrews 7:9 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) We can say that through Avraham even Levi, who receives tithes, has paid tithes, Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And as I may so say, Levi also, who receiveth tithes, payed tithes in Abraham. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition A person might even say that Levi [the father of the priestly tribe] himself, who received tithes (the tenth), paid tithes through Abraham, American Standard Version (1901) And, so to say, through Abraham even Levi, who receiveth tithes, hath paid tithes; Common English Bible It could be said that Levi, who received a tenth, paid a tenth through Abraham Catholic Public Domain Version And so it may be said that even Levi, who received tithes, was himself a tithe through Abraham. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And (as it may be said) even Levi who received tithes, paid tithes in Abraham: |
and blessed be El `Elyon, who has delivered your enemies into your hand.* Avram gave him a tenth of all.
For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened.
Therefore, as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin; and so death passed to all men, because all sinned.
When you have made an end of tithing all the tithe of your increase in the third year, which is the year of tithing, then you shall give it to the Levite, to the foreigner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, that they may eat within your gates, and be filled.
Now consider how great this man was, to whom even Avraham, the patriarch, gave a tenth out of the best spoils.
Here people who die receive tithes, but there one receives tithes of whom it is testified that he lives.