^20 (A)You shall offer up a cake of the first of your ground meal as a heave offering; as ^(B)a heave offering of the threshing floor, so shall you offer it up.

¹⁴ ‘If you offer a grain offering of your firstfruits to the Lord, ^(A)you shall offer for the grain offering of your firstfruits green heads of grain roasted on the fire, grain beaten from ^(B)full heads.

^2 (A)that you shall take some of the first of all the produce of the ground, which you shall bring from your land that the Lord your God is giving you, and put it in a basket and ^(B)go to the place where the Lord your God chooses to make His name abide. ³ And you shall go to the one who is priest in those days, and say to him, ‘I declare today to the Lord ^[a]your God that I have come to the country which the Lord swore to our fathers to give us.’

⁴ “Then the priest shall take the basket out of your hand and set it down before the altar of the Lord your God. ⁵ And you shall answer and say before the Lord your God: ‘My father was ^(C)a ^[b]Syrian, ^(D)about to perish, and ^(E)he went down to Egypt and ^[c]dwelt there, ^(F)few in number; and there he became a nation, ^(G)great, mighty, and populous. ⁶ But the ^(H)Egyptians mistreated us, afflicted us, and laid hard bondage on us. ^7 (I)Then we cried out to the Lord God of our fathers, and the Lord heard our voice and looked on our affliction and our labor and our oppression. ⁸ So ^(J)the Lord brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand and with an outstretched arm, ^(K)with great terror and with signs and wonders. ⁹ He has brought us to this place and has given us this land, ^(L)“a land flowing with milk and honey”; ¹⁰ and now, behold, I have brought the firstfruits of the land which you, O Lord, have given me.’

“Then you shall set it before the Lord your God, and worship before the Lord your God.

^26 (A)“The first of the firstfruits of your land you shall bring to the house of the Lord your God. You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.”

³⁰ The ^(A)best^[a] of all firstfruits of any kind, and every sacrifice of any kind from all your sacrifices, shall be the priest’s; also you ^(B)shall give to the priest the first of your ground meal, ^(C)to cause a blessing to rest on your house.

^37 (A)to bring the firstfruits of our dough, our offerings, the fruit from all kinds of trees, the new wine and oil, to the priests, to the storerooms of the ^[a]house of our God; and to bring ^(B)the tithes of our land to the Levites, for the Levites should receive the tithes in all our farming communities.

¹⁴ You shall eat neither bread nor parched grain nor fresh grain until the same day that you have brought an offering to your God; it shall be a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

The Feast of Weeks^(A)

¹⁵ ‘And you shall count for yourselves from the day after the Sabbath, from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering: seven Sabbaths shall be completed. ¹⁶ Count ^(B)fifty days to the day after the seventh Sabbath; then you shall offer ^(C)a new grain offering to the Lord. ¹⁷ You shall bring from your dwellings two wave loaves of two-tenths of an ephah. They shall be of fine flour; they shall be baked with leaven. They are ^(D)the firstfruits to the Lord.

¹⁰ “Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: ^(A)‘When you come into the land which I give to you, and reap its harvest, then you shall bring a sheaf of ^(B)the firstfruits of your harvest to the priest.