²⁸ “Every third year you shall bring out the full tithe of your produce for that year and store it within your towns;^(A)

²⁹ the Levites, because they have no allotment or inheritance with you, as well as the resident aliens, the orphans, and the widows in your towns, may come and eat their fill so that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work that you undertake.^(A)

⁵ And those descendants of Levi who receive the priestly office have a commandment in the law to collect tithes^[a] from the people, that is, from their kindred, though these also are descended from Abraham.^(A)

⁹ One might even say that Levi himself, who receives tithes, paid tithes through Abraham,

¹⁰ for he was still in the loins of his ancestor when Melchizedek met him.