Leviticus 2:12 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹² As an offering of first fruits you may bring them to the Lord, but they shall not be offered on the altar for a pleasing odor.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² As for the oblation of the firstfruits, ye shall offer them unto the LORD: but they shall not be burnt on the altar for a sweet savour.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² As an offering of firstfruits you may offer leaven and honey to the Lord, but they shall not be burned on the altar for a sweet odor [to the Lord, for their aid to fermentation is symbolic of corruption in the human heart].

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² As an oblation of first-fruits ye shall offer them unto Jehovah: but they shall not come up for a sweet savor on the altar.

Common English Bible

¹² You can present those as first-choice offerings to the LORD, but they must not be entirely burned up on the altar as a soothing smell.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² You shall offer only the first-fruits of these along with the gifts. Yet truly, these shall not be placed upon the altar as an odor of sweetness.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹² You shall offer only the first-fruits of them and gifts: but they shall not be put upon the altar, for a savour of sweetness.

Leviticus 2:12 Cross References

Genesis 23:17

So the field of Ephron in Mach-pelah, which was to the east of Mamre, the field with the cave which was in it and all the trees that were in the field, throughout its whole area, was made over

2 Chronicles 31:5

As soon as the command was spread abroad, the people of Israel gave in abundance the first fruits of grain, wine, oil, honey, and of all the produce of the field; and they brought in abundantly the tithe of everything.

Exodus 22:29

“You shall not delay to offer from the fulness of your harvest and from the outflow of your presses. “The first-born of your sons you shall give to me.

Exodus 23:19

“The first of the first fruits of your ground you shall bring into the house of the Lord your God. “You shall not boil a kid in its mother's milk.

Exodus 34:22

And you shall observe the feast of weeks, the first fruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the year's end.

Leviticus 23:10

“Say to the people of Israel, When you come into the land which I give you and reap its harvest, you shall bring the sheaf of the first fruits of your harvest to the priest;

Leviticus 23:17

You shall bring from your dwellings two loaves of bread to be waved, made of two tenths of an ephah; they shall be of fine flour, they shall be baked with leaven, as first fruits to the Lord.

Leviticus 7:13

With the sacrifice of his peace offerings for thanksgiving he shall bring his offering with cakes of leavened bread.

Numbers 15:20

Of the first of your coarse meal you shall present a cake as an offering; as an offering from the threshing floor, so shall you present it.

Numbers 18:12

All the best of the oil, and all the best of the wine and of the grain, the first fruits of what they give to the Lord, I give to you.

1 Corinthians 15:20

But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who have fallen asleep.

Deuteronomy 26:10

And behold, now I bring the first of the fruit of the ground, which thou, O Lord, hast given me.’ And you shall set it down before the Lord your God, and worship before the Lord your God;

Revelation 14:4

It is these who have not defiled themselves with women, for they are chaste; it is these who follow the Lamb wherever he goes; these have been redeemed from mankind as first fruits for God and the Lamb,