And it could be said that Levi himself, who receives tithes, paid a tithe through Abraham.

In fact, the scene was so terrifying that Moses said, “I shudder with fear.”

“Therefore, I became provoked at that generation and said, ‘Their hearts are always wandering and they have not known my ways.’

“Then I said, ‘Here I am: I have come – it is written of me in the scroll of the book – to do your will, O God.’”

For we know the one who said, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay,” and again, “The Lord will judge his people.”

For to which of the angels did God ever say, “You are my son! Today I have fathered you”? And in another place he says, “I will be his father and he will be my son.”