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put some of the first produce from each crop you harvest into a basket and bring it to the designated place of worship—the place the Lord your God chooses for his name to be honored.

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take some of the firstfruits(A) of all that you produce from the soil of the land the Lord your God is giving you and put them in a basket. Then go to the place the Lord your God will choose as a dwelling for his Name(B)

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19 “As you harvest your crops, bring the very best of the first harvest to the house of the Lord your God.

“You must not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.

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19 “Bring the best of the firstfruits(A) of your soil to the house of the Lord your God.

“Do not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.(B)

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16 “Second, celebrate the Festival of Harvest,[a] when you bring me the first crops of your harvest.

“Finally, celebrate the Festival of the Final Harvest[b] at the end of the harvest season, when you have harvested all the crops from your fields.

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Footnotes

  1. 23:16a Or Festival of Weeks. This was later called the Festival of Pentecost (see Acts 2:1). It is celebrated today as Shavuot (or Shabuoth).
  2. 23:16b Or Festival of Ingathering. This was later called the Festival of Shelters or Festival of Tabernacles (see Lev 23:33-36). It is celebrated today as Sukkot (or Succoth).

16 “Celebrate the Festival of Harvest(A) with the firstfruits(B) of the crops you sow in your field.

“Celebrate the Festival of Ingathering(C) at the end of the year, when you gather in your crops from the field.(D)

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10 Then celebrate the Festival of Harvest[a] to honor the Lord your God. Bring him a voluntary offering in proportion to the blessings you have received from him.

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  1. 16:10 Hebrew Festival of Weeks; also in 16:16. This was later called the Festival of Pentecost (see Acts 2:1). It is celebrated today as Shavuot (or Shabuoth).

10 Then celebrate the Festival of Weeks to the Lord your God by giving a freewill offering in proportion to the blessings the Lord your God has given you.

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26 “As you harvest your crops, bring the very best of the first harvest to the house of the Lord your God.

“You must not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.”

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26 “Bring the best of the firstfruits(A) of your soil to the house of the Lord your God.

“Do not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.”(B)

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They have kept themselves as pure as virgins,[a] following the Lamb wherever he goes. They have been purchased from among the people on the earth as a special offering[b] to God and to the Lamb.

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  1. 14:4a Greek They are virgins who have not defiled themselves with women.
  2. 14:4b Greek as firstfruits.

These are those who did not defile themselves with women, for they remained virgins.(A) They follow the Lamb wherever he goes.(B) They were purchased from among mankind(C) and offered as firstfruits(D) to God and the Lamb.

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18 He chose to give birth to us by giving us his true word. And we, out of all creation, became his prized possession.[a]

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  1. 1:18 Greek we became a kind of firstfruit of his creatures.

18 He chose to give us birth(A) through the word of truth,(B) that we might be a kind of firstfruits(C) of all he created.

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On the first day of each week, you should each put aside a portion of the money you have earned. Don’t wait until I get there and then try to collect it all at once.

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On the first day of every week,(A) each one of you should set aside a sum of money in keeping with your income, saving it up, so that when I come no collections will have to be made.(B)

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23 But there is an order to this resurrection: Christ was raised as the first of the harvest; then all who belong to Christ will be raised when he comes back.

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23 But each in turn: Christ, the firstfruits;(A) then, when he comes,(B) those who belong to him.(C)

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20 But in fact, Christ has been raised from the dead. He is the first of a great harvest of all who have died.

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20 But Christ has indeed been raised from the dead,(A) the firstfruits(B) of those who have fallen asleep.(C)

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Also give my greetings to the church that meets in their home.

Greet my dear friend Epenetus. He was the first person from the province of Asia to become a follower of Christ.

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Greet also the church that meets at their house.(A)

Greet my dear friend Epenetus, who was the first convert(B) to Christ in the province of Asia.(C)

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16 And since Abraham and the other patriarchs were holy, their descendants will also be holy—just as the entire batch of dough is holy because the portion given as an offering is holy. For if the roots of the tree are holy, the branches will be, too.

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16 If the part of the dough offered as firstfruits(A) is holy, then the whole batch is holy; if the root is holy, so are the branches.

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23 And we believers also groan, even though we have the Holy Spirit within us as a foretaste of future glory, for we long for our bodies to be released from sin and suffering. We, too, wait with eager hope for the day when God will give us our full rights as his adopted children,[a] including the new bodies he has promised us.

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  1. 8:23 Greek wait anxiously for sonship.

23 Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit,(A) groan(B) inwardly as we wait eagerly(C) for our adoption to sonship, the redemption of our bodies.(D)

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