Bible Cross References
if the first-fruit
Exodus 22:29
"Give me the offerings from your grain, your wine, and your olive oil when they are due. "Give me your first-born sons.
Exodus 23:16
"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.
Exodus 23:19
"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.
Leviticus 23:10
Numbers 15:17-21
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the following regulations for the people of Israel to observe in the land that he was going to give them.
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When any food produced there is eaten, some of it is to be set aside as a special contribution to the LORD.
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When you bake bread, the first loaf of the first bread made from the new grain is to be presented as a special contribution to the LORD. This is to be presented in the same way as the special contribution you make from the grain you thresh.
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For all time to come, this special gift is to be given to the LORD from the bread you bake.
Deuteronomy 18:4
They are to receive the first share of the grain, wine, olive oil, and wool.
Deuteronomy 26:10
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.
Nehemiah 10:35-37
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We will take to the Temple each year an offering of the first grain we harvest and of the first fruit that ripens on our trees.
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The first son born to each of us we will take to the priests in the Temple and there, as required by the Law, dedicate him to God. We will also dedicate the first calf born to each of our cows, and the first lamb or kid born to each of our sheep or goats.
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We will take to the priests in the Temple the dough made from the first grain harvested each year and our other offerings of wine, olive oil, and all kinds of fruit. We will take to the Levites, who collect tithes in our farming villages, the tithes from the crops that grow on our land.
Proverbs 3:9
Honor the LORD by making him an offering from the best of all that your land produces.
Ezekiel 44:30
The priests are to have the best of all the first harvest and of everything else that is offered to me. Each time the people bake bread, they are to give the priests the first loaf as an offering, and my blessing will rest on their homes.
James 1:18
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.
Revelation 14:4
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.
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Romans 11:17
Some of the branches of the cultivated olive tree have been broken off, and a branch of a wild olive tree has been joined to it. You Gentiles are like that wild olive tree, and now you share the strong spiritual life of the Jews.
Genesis 17:7
"I will keep my promise to you and to your descendants in future generations as an everlasting covenant. I will be your God and the God of your descendants.
Jeremiah 2:21
I planted you like a choice vine from the very best seed. But look what you have become! You are like a rotten, worthless vine.
1 Corinthians 7:14
For the unbelieving husband is made acceptable to God by being united to his wife, and the unbelieving wife is made acceptable to God by being united to her Christian husband. If this were not so, their children would be like pagan children; but as it is, they are acceptable to God.