Yisra'el [was] holiness to the LORD, the first fruits of his increase: all who devour him shall be held guilty; evil shall come on them, says the LORD.
*Speak to the children of Yisra'el, and tell them, 'When you have come into the land which I give to you, and shall reap its the harvest, then you shall bring the sheaf of the first fruits of your harvest to the Kohen:
Woe to those who are at ease in Tziyon, and to those who are secure on the mountain of Shomron, the notable men of the chief of the nations, to whom the house of Yisra'el come!
As it is written, *I have made you a father of many nations.* This is in the presence of him whom he believed: God, who gives life to the dead, and calls the things that are not, as though they were.
in whom you also, having heard the word of the truth, the Good News of your yeshu`ah,--in whom, having also believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise,
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah, who according to his great mercy became our father again to a living hope through the resurrection of Yeshua the Messiah from the dead,
These are those who were not defiled with women, for they are virgins. These are those who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. These were redeemed by Yeshua from among men, the first fruits to God and to the Lamb.