FIRST FRUITS

Passages on this topic · 42

• Exodus 22:29

  “You shall not delay to offer from your harvest and from the outflow of your presses. “You shall give the firstborn of your sons to me.

• Exodus 23:19

  The first of the first fruits of your ground you shall bring into the house of Yahweh your God. “You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.

• Exodus 34:26

  “You shall bring the first of the first fruits of your ground to the house of Yahweh your God. “You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.”

• Leviticus 2:12

  As an offering of first fruits you shall offer them to Yahweh: but they shall not rise up for a pleasant aroma on the altar.

• Leviticus 2:13

  Every offering of your meal offering you shall season with salt. You shall not allow the salt of the covenant of your God to be lacking from your meal offering. With all your offerings you shall offer salt.

• Leviticus 2:14

  “‘If you offer a meal offering of first fruits to Yahweh, you shall offer for the meal offering of your first fruits grain in the ear parched with fire, bruised grain of the fresh ear.

• Leviticus 2:15

  You shall put oil on it, and lay frankincense on it: it is a meal offering.

• Leviticus 2:16

  The priest shall burn as its memorial, part of its bruised grain, and part of its oil, along with all its frankincense: it is an offering made by fire to Yahweh.

• Leviticus 23:10

  “Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘When you have come into the land which I give to you, and shall reap its harvest, then you shall bring the sheaf of the first fruits of your harvest to the priest:

• Leviticus 23:11

  and he shall wave the sheaf before Yahweh, to be accepted for you. On the next day after the Sabbath the priest shall wave it.

• Leviticus 23:12

  On the day when you wave the sheaf, you shall offer a male lamb without defect a year old for a burnt offering to Yahweh.

• Leviticus 23:13

  The meal offering with it shall be two tenths of an ephah of fine flour mingled with oil, an offering made by fire to Yahweh for a pleasant aroma; and the drink offering with it shall be of wine, the fourth part of a hin.

• Leviticus 23:14

  You must not eat bread, or roasted grain, or fresh grain, until this same day, until you have brought the offering of your God. This is a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

• Leviticus 23:17

  You shall bring out of your habitations two loaves of bread for a wave offering made of two tenths of an ephah of fine flour. They shall be baked with yeast, for first fruits to Yahweh.

• Leviticus 23:20

  The priest shall wave them with the bread of the first fruits for a wave offering before Yahweh, with the two lambs. They shall be holy to Yahweh for the priest.

• Numbers 15:20

  Of the first of your dough you shall offer up a cake for a wave offering. As the wave offering of the threshing floor, so you shall heave it.

• Numbers 18:12

  “I have given to you all the best of the oil, and all the best of the vintage, and of the grain, the first fruits of them which they give to Yahweh.

• Numbers 18:13

  The first-ripe fruits of all that is in their land, which they bring to Yahweh, shall be yours. Everyone who is clean in your house shall eat of it.

• Deuteronomy 18:3

  This shall be the priests’ due from the people, from those who offer a sacrifice, whether it be ox or sheep, that they shall give to the priest the shoulder, the two cheeks, and the inner parts.

• Deuteronomy 18:4

  The first fruits of your grain, of your new wine, and of your oil, and the first of the fleece of your sheep, you shall give him.

• Deuteronomy 18:5

  For Yahweh your God has chosen him out of all your tribes, to stand to minister in Yahweh’s name, him and his sons for ever.

• Deuteronomy 26:3

  You shall come to the priest who shall be in those days, and tell him, “I profess today to Yahweh your God, that I have come to the land which Yahweh swore to our fathers to give us.”

• Deuteronomy 26:4

  The priest shall take the basket out of your hand, and set it down before Yahweh your God’s altar.

• Deuteronomy 26:5

  You shall answer and say before Yahweh your God, “My father was a Syrian ready to perish. He went down into Egypt, and lived there, few in number. There he became a great, mighty, and populous nation.

• Deuteronomy 26:6

  The Egyptians mistreated us, afflicted us, and imposed hard labor on us.

• Deuteronomy 26:7

  Then we cried to Yahweh, the God of our fathers. Yahweh heard our voice, and saw our affliction, our toil, and our oppression.

• Deuteronomy 26:8

  Yahweh brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand, with an outstretched arm, with great terror, with signs, and with wonders;

• Deuteronomy 26:9

  and he has brought us into this place, and has given us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey.

• Deuteronomy 26:10

  Now, behold, I have brought the first of the fruit of the ground, which you, Yahweh, have given me.” You shall set it down before Yahweh your God, and worship before Yahweh your God.

• 2 Kings 4:42

  A man from Baal Shalishah came, and brought the man of God bread some of the first fruits: twenty loaves of barley, and fresh ears of grain in his sack. He said, “Give to the people, that they may eat.”

• 2 Chronicles 31:5

  As soon as the commandment went out, the children of Israel gave in abundance the first fruits of grain, new wine, oil, honey, and of all the increase of the field; and they brought in the tithe of all things abundantly.

• Nehemiah 10:35

  and to bring the first fruits of our ground, and the first fruits of all fruit of all kinds of trees, year by year, to Yahweh’s house;

• Nehemiah 10:37

  and that we should bring the first fruits of our dough, our wave offerings, the fruit of all kinds of trees, and the new wine and the oil, to the priests, to the rooms of the house of our God; and the tithes of our ground to the Levites; for they, the Levites, take the tithes in all the cities of our tillage.

• Nehemiah 10:39

  For the children of Israel and the children of Levi shall bring the wave offering of the grain, of the new wine, and of the oil, to the rooms, where the vessels of the sanctuary are, and the priests who minister, with the porters and the singers. We will not forsake the house of our God.

• Proverbs 3:9

  Honor Yahweh with your substance, with the first fruits of all your increase:

• Jeremiah 2:3

  Israel was holiness to Yahweh, the first fruits of his increase. All who devour him shall be held guilty. Evil shall come on them,”’ says Yahweh.”

• Ezekiel 44:30

  The first of all the first fruits of every thing, and every offering of everything, of all your offerings, shall be for the priest: you shall also give to the priests the first of your dough, to cause a blessing to rest on your house.

• Romans 8:23

  Not only so, but ourselves also, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for adoption, the redemption of our body.

• Romans 11:16

  If the first fruit is holy, so is the lump. If the root is holy, so are the branches.

• 1 Corinthians 15:20

  But now Christ has been raised from the dead. He became the first fruits of those who are asleep.

• 1 Corinthians 15:23

  But each in his own order: Christ the first fruits, then those who are Christ’s, at his coming.

• James 1:18

  Of his own will he gave birth to us by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.