Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, When you be come into the land which I give to you, and shall reap the harvest thereof, then you shall bring a sheaf of the first fruits of your harvest to the priest: Treasury of Scripture When Leviticus 14:34 When you be come into the land of Canaan, which I give to you for a possession... and shall Leviticus 2:12-16 As for the oblation of the first fruits, you shall offer them to the LORD: but they shall not be burnt on the altar for a sweet smell... Exodus 22:29 You shall not delay to offer the first of your ripe fruits, and of your liquors: the firstborn of your sons shall you give to me. Exodus 23:16,19 And the feast of harvest, the first fruits of your labors, which you have sown in the field: and the feast of ingathering... Exodus 34:22,26 And you shall observe the feast of weeks, of the first fruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the year's end... Numbers 15:2,18-21 Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, When you be come into the land of your habitations, which I give to you... Numbers 28:26 Also in the day of the first fruits, when you bring a new meat offering to the LORD, after your weeks be out... Deuteronomy 16:9 Seven weeks shall you number to you: begin to number the seven weeks from such time as you begin to put the sickle to the corn. Joshua 3:15 And as they that bore the ark were come to Jordan, and the feet of the priests that bore the ark were dipped in the brim of the water... sheaf. or, handful
[heb] omer
the first fruits This offering was a public acknowledgement of the bounty and goodness of God for the kindly fruits of the earth. From the] practice of the people of God, the heathen borrowed a similar one, founded on the same reason. Proverbs 3:9,10 Honor the LORD with your substance, and with the first fruits of all your increase... Ezekiel 44:30 And the first of all the first fruits of all things, and every oblation of all, of every sort of your oblations, shall be the priest's... Romans 11:16 For if the first fruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches. 1 Corinthians 15:20-23 But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the first fruits of them that slept... James 1:18 Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures. Revelation 14:4 These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are they which follow the Lamb wherever he goes...
Context The Feast of Firstfruits
9And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 10Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, When you be come into the land which I give to you, and shall reap the harvest thereof, then you shall bring a sheaf of the first fruits of your harvest to the priest: 11And he shall wave the sheaf before the LORD, to be accepted for you: on the morrow after the sabbath the priest shall wave it. 12And you shall offer that day when you wave the sheaf an he lamb without blemish of the first year for a burnt offering to the LORD. 13And the meat offering thereof shall be two tenth deals of fine flour mingled with oil, an offering made by fire to the LORD for a sweet smell: and the drink offering thereof shall be of wine, the fourth part of an hin. 14And you shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn, nor green ears, until the selfsame day that you have brought an offering to your God: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings. Parallel Verses American Standard Version
Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye are come into the land which I give unto you, and shall reap the harvest thereof, then ye shall bring the sheaf of the first-fruits of your harvest unto the priest:
Douay-Rheims Bible
Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: When you shall have entered into the land which I will give you, and shall reap your corn, you shall bring sheaves of ears, the firstfruits of your harvest to the priest:
Darby Bible Translation
Speak unto the children of Israel and say unto them, When ye come into the land that I give unto you, and ye reap the harvest thereof, then ye shall bring a sheaf of the first-fruits of your harvest unto the priest.
King James Bible
Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come into the land which I give unto you, and shall reap the harvest thereof, then ye shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest unto the priest:
Young's Literal Translation
'Speak unto the sons of Israel, and thou hast said unto them, When ye come in unto the land which I am giving to you, and have reaped its harvest, and have brought in the sheaf, the beginning of your harvest unto the priest,
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