Consider what a man this was, unto whom the patriarch Abraham gave tithes of the spoils.

"Men and brethren, let me freely speak unto you of the patriarch David: For he is both dead and buried, and his sepulchre remaineth with us unto his day.

And he gave him the covenant of circumcision, and he begat Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day, and Isaac begat Jacob, and Jacob the twelve patriarchs.

And the patriarchs, having indignation, sold Joseph into Egypt, and God was with him,