"Celebrate the Harvest Festival when you begin to harvest your crops. "Celebrate the Festival of Shelters in the autumn, when you gather the fruit from your vineyards and orchards.

"Each year bring to the house of the LORD your God the first grain that you harvest. "Do not cook a young sheep or goat in its mother's milk.

each of you must place in a basket the first part of each crop that you harvest and you must take it with you to the one place of worship.

"The priest will take the basket from you and place it before the altar of the LORD your God.

The Egyptians treated us harshly and forced us to work as slaves.

By his great power and strength he rescued us from Egypt. He worked miracles and wonders, and caused terrifying things to happen.

So now I bring to the LORD the first part of the harvest that he has given me.' "Then set the basket down in the LORD's presence and worship there.

Another time, a man came from Baal Shalishah, bringing Elisha twenty loaves of bread made from the first barley harvested that year, and some freshly-cut heads of grain. Elisha told his servant to feed the group of prophets with this,

As soon as the order was given, the people of Israel brought gifts of their finest grain, wine, olive oil, honey, and other farm produce, and they also brought the tithes of everything they had.

Honor the LORD by making him an offering from the best of all that your land produces.

If you do, your barns will be filled with grain, and you will have too much wine to store it all.

There in the land, on my holy mountain, the high mountain of Israel, all you people of Israel will worship me. I will be pleased with you and will expect you to bring me your sacrifices, your best offerings, and your holy gifts.

It's hopeless! I am like a hungry person who finds no fruit left on the trees and no grapes on the vines. All the grapes and all the tasty figs have been picked.

Instead, be concerned above everything else with the Kingdom of God and with what he requires of you, and he will provide you with all these other things.

But it is not just creation alone which groans; we who have the Spirit as the first of God's gifts also groan within ourselves as we wait for God to make us his children and set our whole being free.

By his own will he brought us into being through the word of truth, so that we should have first place among all his creatures.

"Dedicate all the first-born males to me, for every first-born male Israelite and every first-born male animal belongs to me."

you must offer every first-born male to the LORD. Every first-born male of your animals belongs to the LORD,

"Every first-born son and first-born male domestic animal belongs to me,