In the course of time Cain presented some of the land’s produce as an offering to the Lord.
Leviticus 2:14 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised ‘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. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And if thou offer a meat offering of thy firstfruits unto the LORD, thou shalt offer for the meat offering of thy firstfruits green ears of corn dried by the fire, even corn beaten out of full ears. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition If you offer a cereal offering of your firstfruits to the Lord, you shall offer for it of your firstfruits grain in the ear parched with fire, bruised and crushed grain out of the fresh and fruitful ear. American Standard Version (1901) And if thou offer a meal-offering of first-fruits unto Jehovah, thou shalt offer for the meal-offering of thy first-fruits grain in the ear parched with fire, bruised grain of the fresh ear. Common English Bible If you present a grain offering to the LORD from the first produce, you must make such an offering from the crushed heads of newly ripe grain, roasted with fire. Catholic Public Domain Version But if you will offer a gift of the first-fruits of your grain to the Lord, from ears of grain still green, you shall parch it at the fire, and break it open in the manner of meal. And so shall you offer your first-fruits to the Lord: Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version But if thou offer a gift of the first-fruits of thy corn to the Lord, of the ears yet green, thou shalt dry it at the fire, and break it small like meal; and so shalt thou offer thy first-fruits to the Lord: |
In the course of time Cain presented some of the land’s produce as an offering to the Lord.
A man from Baal-shalishah came to the man of God with his sack full of twenty loaves of barley bread from the first bread of the harvest. Elisha said, ‘Give it to the people to eat.’
The priest will then burn some of its crushed grain and oil with all its frankincense as a food offering to the Lord.
When you offer a thanksgiving sacrifice to the Lord, offer it so that you may be accepted.
‘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.
Its grain offering is to be four litres of fine flour mixed with oil as a food offering to the Lord, a pleasing aroma, and its drink offering will be one litre of wine.
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.
‘My name will be great among the nations, from the rising of the sun to its setting. Incense and pure offerings will be presented in my name in every place because my name will be great among the nations,’ says the Lord of Armies.
‘Command the Israelites and say to them: Be sure to present to me at its appointed time my offering and my food as my food offering, a pleasing aroma to me.
But as it is, Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.
take some of the first of all the land’s produce that you harvest from the land the Lord your God is giving you and put it in a basket. Then go to the place where the Lord your God chooses to have his name dwell.
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.