'Tithes' in the Bible
"But alas for you Pharisees! for you pay tithes on your mint and rue and every kind of garden vegetable, and are indifferent to justice and the love of God. These are the things you ought to have attended to, while not neglecting the others.
And those of the descendants of Levi who receive the priesthood are authorized by the Law to take tithes from the people, that is, from their brethren, though these have sprung from Abraham.
But, in this instance, one who does not trace his origin from them takes tithes from Abraham, and pronounces a blessing on him to whom the promises belong.
Moreover here frail mortal men receive tithes: there one receives them about whom there is evidence that he is alive.
And Levi too--if I may so speak--pays tithes through Abraham:
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- Tithe (35 instances)