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Leviticus 23:10

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

‘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.

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


‘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.


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.


‘You are to count seven weeks, counting the weeks from the time the sickle is first put to the standing corn.


‘On the day of firstfruits, you are to hold a sacred assembly when you present an offering of new grain to the Lord at your Festival of Weeks;  you are not to do any daily work.


The best of all the firstfruits of every kind and contribution of every kind from all your gifts will belong to the priests.  You are to give your first batch of dough to the priest  so that a blessing may rest on your homes.


‘Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When you enter the land I am giving you to settle in,


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.


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


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.


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


Now if the firstfruits are holy,  so is the whole batch. And if the root is holy, so are the branches.


Now the Jordan overflows its banks throughout the harvest season.  But as soon as the priests carrying the ark reached the Jordan, their feet touched the water at its edge


‘When you enter the land of Canaan  that I am giving you as a possession,  and I place a mildew contamination in a house in the land you possess,


He will present the sheaf before the Lord so that you may be accepted; the priest is to present it on the day after the Sabbath.


So Naomi came back from the territory of Moab with her daughter-in-law Ruth the Moabitess. They arrived in Bethlehem at the beginning of the barley harvest.





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