Hebrews 7:9
We can say that through Abraham even Levi, who receives tithes, has paid tithes,
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Referenced Verses
- Gen 14:20 : 20 and blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand." Abram gave him a tenth of all.
- Rom 5:12 : 12 Therefore, as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin; and so death passed to all men, because all sinned.
- Heb 7:4 : 4 Now consider how great this man was, to whom even Abraham, the patriarch, gave a tenth out of the best spoils.
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- Heb 7:1-88 verses86%
1 For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of God Most High, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him,
2 to whom also Abraham divided a tenth part of all (being first, by interpretation, king of righteousness, and then also king of Salem, which is king of peace;
3 without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but made like the Son of God), remains a priest continually.
4 Now consider how great this man was, to whom even Abraham, the patriarch, gave a tenth out of the best spoils.
5 They indeed of the sons of Levi who receive the priest's office have a commandment to take tithes of the people according to the law, that is, of their brothers, though these have come out of the body of Abraham,
6 but he whose genealogy is not counted from them has accepted tithes from Abraham, and has blessed him who has the promises.
7 But without any dispute the lesser is blessed by the greater.
8 Here people who die receive tithes, but there one receives tithes of whom it is testified that he lives.
- Heb 7:10-156 verses82%
10 for he was yet in the body of his father when Melchizedek met him.
11 Now if there was perfection through the Levitical priesthood (for under it the people have received the law), what further need was there for another priest to arise after the order of Melchizedek, and not be called after the order of Aaron?
12 For the priesthood being changed, there is of necessity a change made also in the law.
13 For he of whom these things are said belongs to another tribe, from which no one has officiated at the altar.
14 For it is evident that our Lord has sprung out of Judah, about which tribe Moses spoke nothing concerning priesthood.
15 This is yet more abundantly evident, if after the likeness of Melchizedek there arises another priest,
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21 "To the children of Levi, behold, I have given all the tithe in Israel for an inheritance, in return for their service which they serve, even the service of the Tent of Meeting.
- Gen 14:19-202 verses72%
19 He blessed him, and said, "Blessed be Abram of God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth:
20 and blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand." Abram gave him a tenth of all.
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9 Therefore Levi has no portion nor inheritance with his brothers; Yahweh is his inheritance, according as Yahweh your God spoke to him.)
- Num 18:25-262 verses70%
25 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
26 "Moreover you shall speak to the Levites, and tell them, 'When you take of the children of Israel the tithe which I have given you from them for your inheritance, then you shall offer up a wave offering of it for Yahweh, a tithe of the tithe.
- Neh 10:37-382 verses70%
37 and that we should bring the first fruits of our dough, and our wave offerings, and the fruit of all kinds of trees, the new wine and the oil, to the priests, to the rooms of the house of our God; and the tithes of our ground to the Levites; for they, the Levites, take the tithes in all the cities of our tillage.
38 The priest the son of Aaron shall be with the Levites, when the Levites take tithes: and the Levites shall bring up the tithe of the tithes to the house of our God, to the rooms, into the treasure house.
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17 for it is testified, "You are a priest forever, according to the order of Melchizedek."
- Heb 11:17-193 verses68%
17 By faith, Abraham, being tested, offered up Isaac. Yes, he who had gladly received the promises was offering up his one and only son;
18 even he to whom it was said, "In Isaac will your seed be called;"
19 concluding that God is able to raise up even from the dead. Figuratively speaking, he also did receive him back from the dead.
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9 By faith, he lived as an alien in the land of promise, as in a land not his own, dwelling in tents, with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise.
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8 Will a man rob God? Yet you rob me! But you say, 'How have we robbed you?' In tithes and offerings.
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9 So then, those who are of faith are blessed with the faithful Abraham.
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6 Even as Abraham "believed God, and it was counted to him for righteousness."
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28 Thus you also shall offer a wave offering to Yahweh of all your tithes, which you receive of the children of Israel; and of it you shall give Yahweh's wave offering to Aaron the priest.
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8 He gave him the covenant of circumcision. So Abraham became the father of Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day. Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob became the father of the twelve patriarchs.
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9 the covenant which he made with Abraham, his oath to Isaac,
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10 named by God a high priest after the order of Melchizedek.
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10 Micah said to him, "Dwell with me, and be to me a father and a priest, and I will give you ten [pieces] of silver per year, a suit of clothing, and your food." So the Levite went in.
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2 He said, "Brothers and fathers, listen. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran,
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20 Inasmuch as he was not made priest without the taking of an oath
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6 As he says also in another place, "You are a priest forever, after the order of Melchizedek."
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5 because Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my requirements, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws."
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32 All the tithe of the herds or the flocks, whatever passes under the rod, the tenth shall be holy to Yahweh.
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10 Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house, and test me now in this," says Yahweh of Armies, "if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough for.
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22 then this stone, which I have set up for a pillar, will be God's house. Of all that you will give me I will surely give the tenth to you."