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Leviticus 23:17

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

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.

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‘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.


‘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.


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


‘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.’


‘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 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.


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


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.


He told them another parable: ‘The kingdom of heaven is like leaven   that a woman took and mixed into twenty kilograms   of flour until all of it was leavened.’


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.


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.


You are to present with the bread seven unblemished male lambs a year old, one young bull, and two rams. They will be a burnt offering to the Lord, with their grain offerings and drink offerings, a food offering, a pleasing aroma to the Lord.


We will bring a loaf from our first batch of dough  to the priests at the storerooms of the house of our God. We will also bring the firstfruits of our grain offerings, of every fruit tree, and of the new wine and fresh oil.  A tenth of our land’s produce belongs to the Levites, for the Levites are to collect the one-tenth offering in all our agricultural towns.


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.


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.





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