14 “‘If you bring a grain offering of firstfruits(A) to the Lord, offer crushed heads of new grain roasted in the fire.

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10 “Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘When you enter the land I am going to give you(A) and you reap its harvest,(B) bring to the priest a sheaf(C) of the first grain you harvest.(D)

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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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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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11 My name will be great(A) among the nations,(B) from where the sun rises to where it sets.(C) In every place incense(D) and pure offerings(E) will be brought to me, because my name will be great among the nations,” says the Lord Almighty.

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He grew up before him like a tender shoot,(A)
    and like a root(B) out of dry ground.
He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him,
    nothing in his appearance(C) that we should desire him.
He was despised and rejected by mankind,
    a man of suffering,(D) and familiar with pain.(E)
Like one from whom people hide(F) their faces
    he was despised,(G) and we held him in low esteem.

Surely he took up our pain
    and bore our suffering,(H)
yet we considered him punished by God,(I)
    stricken by him, and afflicted.(J)
But he was pierced(K) for our transgressions,(L)
    he was crushed(M) for our iniquities;
the punishment(N) that brought us peace(O) was on him,
    and by his wounds(P) we are healed.(Q)
We all, like sheep, have gone astray,(R)
    each of us has turned to our own way;(S)
and the Lord has laid on him
    the iniquity(T) of us all.

He was oppressed(U) and afflicted,
    yet he did not open his mouth;(V)
he was led like a lamb(W) to the slaughter,(X)
    and as a sheep before its shearers is silent,
    so he did not open his mouth.
By oppression[a] and judgment(Y) he was taken away.
    Yet who of his generation protested?
For he was cut off from the land of the living;(Z)
    for the transgression(AA) of my people he was punished.[b]
He was assigned a grave with the wicked,(AB)
    and with the rich(AC) in his death,
though he had done no violence,(AD)
    nor was any deceit in his mouth.(AE)

10 Yet it was the Lord’s will(AF) to crush(AG) him and cause him to suffer,(AH)
    and though the Lord makes[c] his life an offering for sin,(AI)
he will see his offspring(AJ) and prolong his days,
    and the will of the Lord will prosper(AK) in his hand.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 53:8 Or From arrest
  2. Isaiah 53:8 Or generation considered / that he was cut off from the land of the living, / that he was punished for the transgression of my people?
  3. Isaiah 53:10 Hebrew though you make

Honor the Lord with your wealth,
    with the firstfruits(A) of all your crops;
10 then your barns will be filled(B) to overflowing,
    and your vats will brim over with new wine.(C)

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“Give this command to the Israelites and say to them: ‘Make sure that you present to me at the appointed time(A) my food(B) offerings, as an aroma pleasing to me.’(C)

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Feeding of a Hundred

42 A man came from Baal Shalishah,(A) bringing the man of God twenty loaves(B) of barley bread(C) baked from the first ripe grain, along with some heads of new grain. “Give it to the people to eat,” Elisha said.

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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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20 The priest is to wave the two lambs before the Lord as a wave offering,(A) together with the bread of the firstfruits. They are a sacred offering to the Lord for the priest.

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14 You must not eat any bread, or roasted or new grain,(A) until the very day you bring this offering to your God.(B) This is to be a lasting ordinance for the generations to come,(C) wherever you live.(D)

The Festival of Weeks(E)

15 “‘From the day after the Sabbath, the day you brought the sheaf of the wave offering, count off seven full weeks. 16 Count off fifty days up to the day after the seventh Sabbath,(F) and then present an offering of new grain to the Lord. 17 From wherever you live, bring two loaves made of two-tenths of an ephah(G) of the finest flour, baked with yeast, as a wave offering of firstfruits(H) to the Lord.

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29 “When you sacrifice a thank offering(A) to the Lord, sacrifice it in such a way that it will be accepted on your behalf.

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In the course of time Cain brought some of the fruits of the soil as an offering(A) to the Lord.(B)

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