Exodus 22:29

New Century Version

“Do not hold back your offering from the first of your harvest and the first wine that you make. Also, you must give me your firstborn sons.

Cross References

2 Kings 4:42

A man from Baal Shalishah came to Elisha, bringing him twenty loaves of barley bread from the first harvest. He also brought fresh grain in his sack. Elisha said, “Give it to the people to eat.”

2 Chronicles 31:5

As soon as the king’s command went out to the Israelites, they gave freely of the first portion of their grain, new wine, oil, honey, and everything they grew in their fields. They brought a large amount, one-tenth of everything.

Exodus 13:12

you must give him every firstborn male. Also every firstborn male animal must be given to the Lord.

Exodus 13:2

“Give every firstborn male to me. Every firstborn male among the Israelites belongs to me, whether human or animal.”

Exodus 23:15

You must celebrate the Feast of Unleavened Bread in the way I commanded you. For seven days you must eat bread that is made without yeast at the set time during the month of Abib, the month when you came out of Egypt. No one is to come to worship me without bringing an offering.

Exodus 23:16

“You must celebrate the Feast of Weeks. Offer to God the first things you harvest from the crops you planted in your fields. “You must celebrate the Feast of Shelters in the fall, when you gather all the crops from your fields.

Exodus 23:19

“You must bring the best of the firstfruits of your land to the Holy Tent of the Lord your God. “You must not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.

Exodus 34:19

“The firstborn of every mother belongs to me, including every firstborn male animal that is born in your flocks and herds.

Exodus 34:20

You may buy back a donkey by paying for it with a lamb, but if you don’t want to buy back a donkey, you must break its neck. You must buy back all your firstborn sons. “No one is to come before me without a gift.

Ezekiel 20:40

On my holy mountain, the high mountain of Israel, all Israel will serve me in the land, says the Lord God. There I will accept you. There I will expect your offerings, the first harvest of your offerings, and all your holy gifts.

Leviticus 22:27

“When an ox, a sheep, or a goat is born, it must stay seven days with its mother. But from the eighth day on, this animal will be accepted as a sacrifice by fire to the Lord.

Micah 7:1

Poor me! I am like a hungry man, and all the summer fruit has been picked— there are no grapes left to eat, none of the early figs I love.

Numbers 18:13

When they bring to the Lord all the first things they harvest, they will be yours. Anyone in your family who is clean may eat these things.

Matthew 6:33

Seek first God’s kingdom and what God wants. Then all your other needs will be met as well.

Romans 8:23

Not only the world, but we also have been waiting with pain inside us. We have the Spirit as the first part of God’s promise. So we are waiting for God to finish making us his own children, which means our bodies will be made free.

Deuteronomy 15:19

Save all the first male animals born to your herds and flocks. They are for the Lord your God. Do not work the first calf born to your oxen, and do not cut off the wool from the first lamb born to your sheep.

James 1:18

God decided to give us life through the word of truth so we might be the most important of all the things he made.