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Numbers 15:20

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

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.

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‘If you present a grain offering of firstfruits to the Lord, you are to present fresh ears of corn, crushed grain, roasted on the fire, for your grain offering of firstfruits.


‘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.’


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.


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.


‘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.


‘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.


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


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


‘Each year you are to set aside a tenth of all the produce grown in your fields.


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 priest will present the lambs with the bread of firstfruits as a presentation offering before the Lord; the bread and the two lambs will be holy to the Lord for the priest.


Throughout your generations, you are to give the Lord a contribution from the first batch of your dough.


You are to eat a tenth of your grain, new wine, and fresh oil, and the firstborn of your herd and flock, in the presence of the Lord your God at the place where he chooses to have his name dwell,  so that you will always learn to fear  the Lord your God.


‘You are to celebrate the Festival of Shelters  for seven days when you have gathered in everything from your threshing-floor and winepress.


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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