“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.
Ezekiel 48:14 - Revised Standard Version 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. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And they shall not sell of it, neither exchange, nor alienate the firstfruits of the land: for it is holy unto the LORD. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And they shall not sell any of it or exchange it; they shall not convey or transfer this the firstfruits of the land, for it has been offered to the Lord and is holy to Him. American Standard Version (1901) And they shall sell none of it, nor exchange it, nor shall the first-fruits of the land be alienated; for it is holy unto Jehovah. Common English Bible None of it will be sold, exchanged, or transferred. It is the choicest land, because it is holy to the LORD. Catholic Public Domain Version And they shall not sell from it, nor exchange, and the first-fruits of the land shall not be transferred. For these have been sanctified to the Lord. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And they shall not sell thereof, nor exchange, neither shall the firstfruits of the land be alienated, because they are sanctified to the Lord. |
“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.
“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.
And it shall belong to them as a special portion from the holy portion of the land, a most holy place, adjoining the territory of the Levites.
And alongside the territory of the priests, the Levites shall have an allotment twenty-five thousand cubits in length and ten thousand in breadth. The whole length shall be twenty-five thousand cubits and the breadth twenty thousand.
And the priest shall wave them with the bread of the first fruits as a wave offering before the Lord, with the two lambs; they shall be holy to the Lord for the priest.
Nevertheless the cities of the Levites, the houses in the cities of their possession, the Levites may redeem at any time.
But the fields of common land belonging to their cities may not be sold; for that is their perpetual possession.
“But no devoted thing that a man devotes to the Lord, of anything that he has, whether of a man or beast, or of his inherited field, shall be sold or redeemed; every devoted thing is most holy to the Lord.
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.