Exodus 22:29
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29 “You shall not delay to offer from the fullness of your harvest and from the outflow of your presses. (A)The firstborn of your sons you shall give to me.
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Exodus 23:16
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16 You shall keep (A)the Feast of Harvest, of the firstfruits of your labor, of what you sow in the field. You shall keep the (B)Feast of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather in from the field the fruit of your labor.
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Exodus 13:2
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2 (A)“Consecrate to me all the firstborn. Whatever is the first to open the womb among the people of Israel, both of man and of beast, is mine.”
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James 1:18
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18 (A)Of his own will he (B)brought us forth by the word of truth, (C)that we should be a kind of (D)firstfruits of his creatures.
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Deuteronomy 26:2-10
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2 (A)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 is giving you, and you shall put it in a basket, and you shall (B)go to the place that the Lord your God will choose, to make his name to dwell there. 3 And you shall go to the priest who is in office at that time and say to him, ‘I declare today to the Lord your God that I have come into the land (C)that the Lord swore to our fathers to give us.’ 4 Then the priest shall take the basket from your hand and set it down before the altar of the Lord your God.
5 “And you shall make response before the Lord your God, ‘A (D)wandering Aramean was my father. And he went down into Egypt and sojourned there, (E)few in number, and there he became a nation, great, mighty, and populous. 6 And (F)the Egyptians treated us harshly and humiliated us and laid on us hard labor. 7 Then (G)we cried to the Lord, the God of our fathers, and the Lord heard our voice and saw our affliction, our toil, and our oppression. 8 And (H)the Lord brought us out of Egypt (I)with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, with great deeds of terror,[a] with signs and wonders. 9 And he brought us into this place and gave us this land, (J)a land flowing with milk and honey. 10 And behold, now I bring the first of the fruit of the ground, which you, O Lord, have given me.’ And you shall set it down before the Lord your God and worship before the Lord your God.
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- Deuteronomy 26:8 Hebrew with great terror
Exodus 23:19
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19 “The best of the (A)firstfruits of your ground you shall bring into the house of the Lord your God.
(B)“You shall not boil a young goat in its mother's milk.
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Romans 8:23
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23 And not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have (A)the firstfruits of the Spirit, (B)groan inwardly as (C)we wait eagerly for adoption as sons, (D)the redemption of our bodies.
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Proverbs 3:9-10
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9 Honor the Lord with your wealth
and with (A)the firstfruits of all your produce;
10 then your (B)barns will be filled with plenty,
and your vats will be bursting with wine.
Matthew 6:33
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33 But (A)seek first (B)the kingdom of God and his righteousness, (C)and all these things will be added to you.
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Micah 7:1
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Wait for the God of Salvation
7 Woe is me! For I have become
(A)as when the summer fruit has been gathered,
as when the grapes have been gleaned:
there is no cluster to eat,
no (B)first-ripe fig that my soul desires.
Exodus 34:19
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19 (A)All that open the womb are mine, all your male[a] livestock, the firstborn of cow and sheep.
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- Exodus 34:19 Septuagint, Theodotion, Vulgate, Targum; the meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain
Exodus 13:12
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12 (A)you shall set apart to the Lord all that first opens the womb. All the firstborn of your animals that are males shall be the Lord's.
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Ezekiel 20:40
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40 (A)“For on my holy mountain, the mountain height of Israel, declares the Lord God, there (B)all the house of Israel, all of them, shall serve me in the land. (C)There I will accept them, and there I will require your contributions and the choicest of your gifts, with all your sacred offerings.
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2 Chronicles 31:5
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5 As soon as the command was spread abroad, the people of Israel gave in abundance the firstfruits of grain, wine, oil, honey, and of all the produce of the field. And they brought in abundantly (A)the tithe of everything.
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2 Kings 4:42
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42 A man came from (A)Baal-shalishah, (B)bringing the man of God bread of the firstfruits, twenty loaves of barley and fresh ears of grain in his sack. And Elisha said, (C)“Give to the men, that they may eat.”
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