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Leviticus 2:12

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

You may present them to the Lord as an offering of firstfruits,  but they are not to be offered on the altar as a pleasing aroma.

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‘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.


These are the ones who have not defiled themselves with women, since they remained virgins.  These are the ones who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. They were redeemed  from humanity as the firstfruits  for God and the Lamb.


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.


I have now brought the first of the land’s produce that you, Lord, have given me. You will then place the container before the Lord your God and bow down to him.


You are to offer a loaf from your first batch of dough  as a contribution; offer it just like a contribution from the threshing-floor.


‘Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When you enter the land I am giving you and reap its harvest,  you are to bring the first sheaf of your harvest to the priest.


He is to present as his offering cakes of leavened bread with his thanksgiving sacrifice of fellowship.


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


So Ephron’s field  at Machpelah near Mamre #– #the field with its cave and all the trees anywhere within the boundaries of the field #– #became


But as it is, Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits  of those who have fallen asleep.


‘Observe the Festival of Weeks with the firstfruits of the wheat harvest, and the Festival of Ingathering  at the turn of the agricultural year.


Bring two loaves of bread from your settlements as a presentation offering, each of them made from four litres of fine flour, baked with yeast, as firstfruits  to the Lord.


I am giving you all the best of the fresh oil, new wine, and grain,  which the Israelites give to the Lord as their firstfruits.





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