On the first day of the Harvest Festival, when you present the offering of new grain to the LORD, you are to gather for worship, and no work is to be done.

In addition, you shall offer loaves of bread baked with yeast.

Jesus told them still another parable: "The Kingdom of heaven is like this. A woman takes some yeast and mixes it with a bushel of flour until the whole batch of dough rises."

(SEE 23:9)

"Give me the offerings from your grain, your wine, and your olive oil when they are due. "Give me your first-born sons.

"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.

"Keep the Harvest Festival when you begin to harvest the first crop of your wheat, and keep the Festival of Shelters in the autumn when you gather your fruit.

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

The LORD gave Moses

When any food produced there is eaten, some of it is to be set aside as a special contribution to the LORD.

For all time to come, this special gift is to be given to the LORD from the bread you bake.

"After you have occupied the land that the LORD your God is giving you and have settled there,

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.

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.

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.

But the truth is that Christ has been raised from death, as the guarantee that those who sleep in death will also be raised.

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.

They are the men who have kept themselves pure by not having sexual relations with women; they are virgins. They follow the Lamb wherever he goes. They have been redeemed from the rest of the human race and are the first ones to be offered to God and to the Lamb.