‘You must not hold back offerings from your harvest or your vats. Give me the firstborn of your sons.
Leviticus 23:10 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised ‘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. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come into the land which I give unto you, and shall reap the harvest thereof, then ye shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest unto the priest: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Tell the Israelites, When you have come into the land I give you and reap its harvest, you shall bring the sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest to the priest. American Standard Version (1901) Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye are come into the land which I give unto you, and shall reap the harvest thereof, then ye shall bring the sheaf of the first-fruits of your harvest unto the priest: Common English Bible Speak to the Israelites and say to them: When you enter the land that I am giving you and harvest its produce, you must bring the first bundle of your harvest to the priest. Catholic Public Domain Version Speak to the sons of Israel, and you shall say to them: When you will have entered into the land which I will give to you, and you will have harvested your grain fields, you shall carry the sheaves of grain, the first-fruits of your harvest, to the priest. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: When you shall have entered into the land which I will give you, and shall reap your corn, you shall bring sheaves of ears, the first-fruits of your harvest to the priest. |
‘You must not hold back offerings from your harvest or your vats. Give me the firstborn of your sons.
Also observe the Festival of Harvest with the firstfruits of your produce from what you sow in the field, and observe the Festival of Ingathering , at the end of the year, when you gather your produce from the field.
‘Bring the best of the firstfruits of your land to the house of the Lord your God. ‘You must not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.
‘Observe the Festival of Weeks with the firstfruits of the wheat harvest, and the Festival of Ingathering at the turn of the agricultural year.
‘Bring the best firstfruits of your land to the house of the Lord your God. ‘You must not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.’
The best of all the firstfruits of every kind and contribution of every kind from all your gifts will belong to the priests. You are to give your first batch of dough to the priest so that a blessing may rest on your homes.
‘When you enter the land of Canaan that I am giving you as a possession, and I place a mildew contamination in a house in the land you possess,
He will present the sheaf before the Lord so that you may be accepted; the priest is to present it on the day after the Sabbath.
Bring two loaves of bread from your settlements as a presentation offering, each of them made from four litres of fine flour, baked with yeast, as firstfruits to the Lord.
‘Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When you enter the land I am giving you to settle in,
‘On the day of firstfruits, you are to hold a sacred assembly when you present an offering of new grain to the Lord at your Festival of Weeks; you are not to do any daily work.
Now if the firstfruits are holy, so is the whole batch. And if the root is holy, so are the branches.
‘You are to count seven weeks, counting the weeks from the time the sickle is first put to the standing corn.
By his own choice, he gave us birth by the word of truth so that we would be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
Now the Jordan overflows its banks throughout the harvest season. But as soon as the priests carrying the ark reached the Jordan, their feet touched the water at its edge
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.
So Naomi came back from the territory of Moab with her daughter-in-law Ruth the Moabitess. They arrived in Bethlehem at the beginning of the barley harvest.