³⁴ Again she conceived, and when she gave birth to a son she said, “Now at last my husband will become attached to me,^(A) because I have borne him three sons.” So he was named Levi.^[a](B)

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

¹⁰ because when Melchizedek met Abraham, Levi was still in the body of his ancestor.