Deuteronomy 26:2

New American Bible - revised edition

you shall take some first fruits of the various products of the soil which you harvest from the land the Lord, your God, is giving you; put them in a basket and go to the place which the Lord, your God, will choose as the dwelling place for his name.

Cross References

2 Kings 4:42

A man came from Baal-shalishah bringing the man of God twenty barley loaves made from the first fruits, and fresh grain in the ear. Elisha said, “Give it to the people to eat.”

2 Chronicles 31:5

As soon as the order was promulgated, the Israelites brought, in great quantities, the best of their grain, wine, oil, and honey, and all the produce of the fields; they gave a generous tithe of everything.

2 Chronicles 6:6

but now I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name may be there, and I have chosen David to rule my people Israel.

Nehemiah 12:44

At that time men were appointed over the chambers set aside for stores, offerings, first fruits, and tithes; in them they were to collect from the fields of the various cities the portions legally assigned to the priests and Levites. For Judah rejoiced in its appointed priests and Levites

Nehemiah 13:31

I also provided for the procurement of wood at stated times and for the first fruits. Remember this in my favor, my God!

Exodus 20:24

An altar of earth make for me, and sacrifice upon it your burnt offerings and communion sacrifices, your sheep and your oxen. In every place where I cause my name to be invoked I will come to you and bless you.

Exodus 22:29

You must do the same with your oxen and your sheep; for seven days the firstling may stay with its mother, but on the eighth day you must give it to me.

Exodus 23:16

You shall also keep the feast of the grain harvest with the first fruits of the crop that you sow in the field; and finally, the feast of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you collect your produce from the fields.

Exodus 23:19

The choicest first fruits of your soil you shall bring to the house of the Lord, your God. You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk. Reward of Fidelity.

Exodus 34:26

The choicest first fruits of your soil you shall bring to the house of the Lord, your God. You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk. Radiance of Moses’ Face.

Jeremiah 2:3

Israel was dedicated to the Lord, the first fruits of his harvest; All who ate of it were held guilty, evil befell them—oracle of the Lord.

Ezekiel 20:40

For on my holy mountain, on the highest mountain in Israel—oracle of the Lord God—there the whole house of Israel shall worship me; there in the land I will accept them all, there I will claim your tributes, the best of your offerings, from all your holy things.

Ezekiel 44:30

all the choicest first fruits of every kind and all the best of your offerings of every kind shall belong to the priests; the best of your dough you shall also give to the priests to bring a blessing upon your house.

Ezekiel 48:14

They may not sell or exchange or transfer any of it, the best part of the land, for it is sacred to the Lord.

Leviticus 2:12

Such you may present to the Lord in the offering of the first produce that is processed, but they are not to be placed on the altar for a pleasing odor.

Leviticus 2:14

If you offer a grain offering of first ripe fruits to the Lord, you shall offer it in the form of fresh early grain, roasted by fire and crushed as a grain offering of your first ripe fruits.

Romans 11:16

If the firstfruits are holy, so is the whole batch of dough; and if the root is holy, so are the branches.

Romans 16:5

greet also the church at their house. Greet my beloved Epaenetus, who was the firstfruits in Asia for Christ.

Romans 8:23

and not only that, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, we also groan within ourselves as we wait for adoption, the redemption of our bodies.

1 Corinthians 15:20

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

1 Corinthians 15:23

but each one in proper order: Christ the firstfruits; then, at his coming, those who belong to Christ;

1 Corinthians 16:2

On the first day of the week each of you should set aside and save whatever he can afford, so that collections will not be going on when I come.

Deuteronomy 16:10

You shall then keep the feast of Weeks for the Lord, your God, and the measure of your own voluntary offering which you will give shall be in proportion to the blessing the Lord, your God, has given you.

Deuteronomy 18:4

The first fruits of your grain, your wine, and your oil, as well as the first shearing of your flock, you shall also give him.

Deuteronomy 26:1

When you have come into the land which the Lord, your God, is giving you as a heritage, and have taken possession and settled in it,

Deuteronomy 26:3

There you shall go to the priest in office at that time and say to him, “Today I acknowledge to the Lord, my God, that I have indeed come into the land which the Lord swore to our ancestors to give us.”

James 1:18

He willed to give us birth by the word of truth that we may be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures. Doers of the Word.

Joshua 18:1

The whole community of the Israelites assembled at Shiloh, where they set up the tent of meeting; and the land was subdued before them. The Seven Remaining Portions.

Revelation 14:4

These are they who were not defiled with women; they are virgins and these are the ones who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. They have been ransomed as the firstfruits of the human race for God and the Lamb.