Bible Cross References
the first-born
Exodus 13:2
"Dedicate all the first-born males to me, for every first-born male Israelite and every first-born male animal belongs to me."
Exodus 13:12-15
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you must offer every first-born male to the LORD. Every first-born male of your animals belongs to the LORD,
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but you must buy back from him every first-born male donkey by offering a lamb in its place. If you do not want to buy back the donkey, break its neck. You must buy back every first-born male child of yours.
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In the future, when your son asks what this observance means, you will answer him, 'By using great power the LORD brought us out of Egypt, the place where we were slaves.
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When the king of Egypt was stubborn and refused to let us go, the LORD killed every first-born male in the land of Egypt, both human and animal. That is why we sacrifice every first-born male animal to the LORD, but buy back our first-born sons.
Exodus 34:19
"Every first-born son and first-born male domestic animal belongs to me,
Leviticus 27:26
The first-born of an animal already belongs to the LORD, so no one may dedicate it to him as a freewill offering. A calf, a lamb, or a kid belongs to the LORD,
Leviticus 27:27
but the first-born of an unclean animal may be bought back at the standard price plus an additional 20 percent. If it is not bought back, it may be sold to someone else at the standard price.
Numbers 18:15
"Every first-born child or animal that the Israelites present to me belongs to you. But you must accept payment to buy back every first-born child, and must also accept payment for every first-born animal that is ritually unclean.
Numbers 18:16
Children shall be bought back at the age of one month for the fixed price of five pieces of silver, according to the official standard.
Deuteronomy 12:6
There you are to offer your sacrifices that are to be burned and your other sacrifices, your tithes and your offerings, the gifts that you promise to the LORD, your freewill offerings, and the first-born of your cattle and sheep.
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Numbers 18:9-19
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Of the most sacred offerings not burned on the altar, the following belong to you: the grain offerings, the sin offerings, and the repayment offerings. Everything that is presented to me as a sacred offering belongs to you and your sons.
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You must eat these things in a holy place, and only males may eat them; consider them holy.
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"In addition, any other special contributions that the Israelites present to me shall be yours. I am giving them to you, your sons, and your daughters for all time to come. Every member of your family who is ritually clean may eat them.
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"I am giving you all the best of the first produce which the Israelites give me each year: olive oil, wine, and grain.
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It all belongs to you. Every member of your family who is ritually clean may eat it.
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"Everything in Israel that has been unconditionally dedicated to me belongs to you.
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"Every first-born child or animal that the Israelites present to me belongs to you. But you must accept payment to buy back every first-born child, and must also accept payment for every first-born animal that is ritually unclean.
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Children shall be bought back at the age of one month for the fixed price of five pieces of silver, according to the official standard.
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But the first-born of cows, sheep, and goats are not to be bought back; they belong completely to me and are to be sacrificed. Throw their blood against the altar and burn their fat as a food offering, an odor pleasing to me.
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The meat from them belongs to you, like the breast and the right hind leg of the special offering.
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"I am giving to you, to your sons, and to your daughters, for all time to come, all the special contributions which the Israelites present to me. This is an unbreakable covenant that I have made with you and your descendants."
1 Corinthians 9:6-14
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Or are Barnabas and I the only ones who have to work for our living?
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What soldiers ever have to pay their own expenses in the army? What farmers do not eat the grapes from their own vineyard? What shepherds do not use the milk from their own sheep?
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I don't have to limit myself to these everyday examples, because the Law says the same thing.
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We read in the Law of Moses, "Do not muzzle an ox when you are using it to thresh grain." Now, is God concerned about oxen?
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Didn't he really mean us when he said that? Of course that was written for us. Anyone who plows and anyone who reaps should do their work in the hope of getting a share of the crop.
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We have sown spiritual seed among you. Is it too much if we reap material benefits from you?
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If others have the right to expect this from you, don't we have an even greater right? But we haven't made use of this right. Instead, we have endured everything in order not to put any obstacle in the way of the Good News about Christ.
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Surely you know that the men who work in the Temple get their food from the Temple and that those who offer the sacrifices on the altar get a share of the sacrifices.
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In the same way, the Lord has ordered that those who preach the gospel should get their living from it.
Galatians 6:6
If you are being taught the Christian message, you should share all the good things you have with your teacher.