Deuteronomy 26:2

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

you shall take some of the first of all the fruit of the ground, which you harvest from your land that the Lord your God gives you, and you shall put it in a basket, and you shall go to the place which the Lord your God will choose, to make his name to dwell there.

Cross References

2 Kings 4:42

A man came from Baal-shalishah, bringing the man of God bread of the first fruits, twenty loaves of barley, and fresh ears of grain in his sack. And Elisha said, “Give to the men, that they may eat.”

2 Chronicles 31:5

As soon as the command was spread abroad, the people of Israel gave in abundance the first fruits of grain, wine, oil, honey, and of all the produce of the field; and they brought in abundantly the tithe of everything.

2 Chronicles 6:6

but I have chosen Jerusalem that my name may be there and I have chosen David to be over my people Israel.’

Nehemiah 12:44

On that day men were appointed over the chambers for the stores, the contributions, the first fruits, and the tithes, to gather into them the portions required by the law for the priests and for the Levites according to the fields of the towns; for Judah rejoiced over the priests and the Levites who ministered.

Nehemiah 13:31

and I provided for the wood offering, at appointed times, and for the first fruits. Remember me, O my God, for good.

Exodus 20:24

An altar of earth you shall make for me and sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings, your sheep and your oxen; in every place where I cause my name to be remembered I will come to you and bless you.

Exodus 22:29

“You shall not delay to offer from the fulness of your harvest and from the outflow of your presses. “The first-born of your sons you shall give to me.

Exodus 23:16

You shall keep the feast of harvest, of the first fruits of your labor, of what you sow in the field. You shall keep the feast of ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather in from the field the fruit of your labor.

Exodus 23:19

“The first of the first fruits of your ground you shall bring into the house of the Lord your God. “You shall not boil a kid in its mother's milk.

Exodus 34:26

The first of the first fruits of your ground you shall bring to the house of the Lord your God. You shall not boil a kid in its mother's milk.”

Jeremiah 2:3

Israel was holy to the Lord, the first fruits of his harvest. All who ate of it became guilty; evil came upon them, says the Lord.”

Ezekiel 20:40

“For on my holy mountain, the mountain height of Israel, says the Lord God, there all the house of Israel, all of them, shall serve me in the land; there I will accept them, and there I will require your contributions and the choicest of your gifts, with all your sacred offerings.

Ezekiel 44:30

And the first of all the first fruits of all kinds, and every offering of all kinds from all your offerings, shall belong to the priests; you shall also give to the priests the first of your coarse meal, that a blessing may rest on your house.

Ezekiel 48:14

They shall not sell or exchange any of it; they shall not alienate this choice portion of the land, for it is holy to the Lord.

Leviticus 2:12

As an offering of first fruits you may bring them to the Lord, but they shall not be offered on the altar for a pleasing odor.

Leviticus 2:14

“If you offer a cereal offering of first fruits to the Lord, you shall offer for the cereal offering of your first fruits crushed new grain from fresh ears, parched with fire.

Romans 11:16

If the dough offered as first fruits is holy, so is the whole lump; and if the root is holy, so are the branches.

Romans 16:5

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

Romans 8:23

and not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait for adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies.

1 Corinthians 15:20

But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who have fallen asleep.

1 Corinthians 15:23

But each in his own order: Christ the first fruits, then at his coming those who belong to Christ.

1 Corinthians 16:2

On the first day of every week, each of you is to put something aside and store it up, as he may prosper, so that contributions need not be made when I come.

Deuteronomy 16:10

Then you shall keep the feast of weeks to the Lord your God with the tribute of a freewill offering from your hand, which you shall give as the Lord your God blesses you;

Deuteronomy 18:4

The first fruits of your grain, of your wine and of your oil, and the first of the fleece of your sheep, you shall give him.

Deuteronomy 26:1

“When you come into the land which the Lord your God gives you for an inheritance, and have taken possession of it, and live in it,

Deuteronomy 26:3

And you shall go to the priest who is in office at that time, and say to him, ‘I declare this day to the Lord your God that I have come into the land which the Lord swore to our fathers to give us.’

James 1:18

Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.

Joshua 18:1

Then the whole congregation of the people of Israel assembled at Shiloh, and set up the tent of meeting there; the land lay subdued before them.

Revelation 14:4

It is these who have not defiled themselves with women, for they are chaste; it is these who follow the Lamb wherever he goes; these have been redeemed from mankind as first fruits for God and the Lamb,