⁹ One might even say that Levi, who collects the tenth, paid the tenth through Abraham,

Death Through Adam, Life Through Christ

¹² Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man,^(A) and death through sin,^(B) and in this way death came to all people, because all sinned^(C)—

Then Abram gave him a tenth of everything.^(B)

⁴ Just think how great he was: Even the patriarch^(A) Abraham gave him a tenth of the plunder!^(B)