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Exodus 22:29

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

‘You must not hold back offerings  from your harvest or your vats. Give me the firstborn of your sons.

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Also observe the Festival of Harvest  with the firstfruits of your produce from what you sow in the field, and observe the Festival of Ingathering  , at the end of the year, when you gather your produce  from the field.


‘Consecrate every firstborn male  to me, the firstborn from every womb among the Israelites, both man and domestic animal; it is mine.’


By his own choice, he gave us birth by the word of truth so that we would be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.


‘Bring the best of the firstfruits of your land to the house of the Lord your God. ‘You must not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.


Not only that,  but we ourselves who have the Spirit as the firstfruits   #– #we also groan within ourselves,  eagerly waiting for adoption,  the redemption of our bodies.


But seek first the kingdom of God   , and his righteousness,   and all these things will be provided for you.


How sad for me! For I am like one who – when the summer fruit has been gathered after the gleaning of the grape harvest   – finds no grape cluster to eat, no early fig, which I crave.


‘The firstborn  male from every womb belongs to me, including all your male  , livestock, the firstborn of cattle or sheep.


you are to present to the Lord every firstborn male of the womb. All firstborn offspring of the livestock you own that are males will be the Lord’s.


For on my holy mountain, Israel’s high mountain #– #the declaration of the Lord God  #– #there the entire house of Israel, all of them,  will serve me in the land. There I will accept them and will require your contributions and choicest gifts,  all your holy offerings.


When the word spread, the Israelites gave liberally of the best of the grain, new wine, fresh oil, honey, and of all the produce of the field, and they brought in an abundance, a tenth  of everything.


A man from Baal-shalishah  came to the man of God with his sack full of  twenty loaves of barley bread from the first bread of the harvest. Elisha said, ‘Give it to the people to eat.’


Observe the Festival of Unleavened Bread. As I commanded you, you are to eat unleavened bread for seven days at the appointed time in the month of Abib,  because you came out of Egypt in that month. No one is to appear before me empty-handed.


You may redeem the firstborn of a donkey with a sheep, but if you do not redeem it, break its neck.  You must redeem all the firstborn of your sons. No one is to appear before me empty-handed.


The firstfruits of all that is in their land, which they bring to the Lord, belong to you. Every clean person in your house may eat them.


‘When an ox, sheep, or goat is born, it is to remain with  its mother for seven days; from the eighth day  on, it will be acceptable as an offering, a food offering to the Lord.


‘Consecrate to the Lord your God every firstborn male produced by your herd and flock.  You are not to put the firstborn of your oxen to work or shear the firstborn of your flock.





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