Deuteronomy 26:2

Detailed Stipulations: Purity And Unity

¹ Now when you have come into the land which the Lord is giving you for your heritage, and you have made it yours and are living in it; ² You are to take a part of the first-fruits of the earth, which you get from the land which the Lord your God is giving you, and put it in a basket, and go to the place marked out by the Lord your God, as the resting-place of his name. ³ And you are to come to him who is priest at that time, and say to him, I give witness today before the Lord your God, that I have come into the land which the Lord made an oath to our fathers to give us.

Place Where the Lord Your God Chooses

Of The Earth

Jehovah

Exodus 23:19

The best of the first-fruits of your land are to be taken into the house of the Lord your God. The young goat is not to be cooked in its mother's milk

Exodus 23:16

And the feast of the grain-cutting, the first-fruits of your planted fields: and the feast at the start of the year, when you have got in all the fruit from your fields.

Exodus 34:26

Take the first-fruits of your land as an offering to the house of the Lord your God. Let not the young goat be cooked in its mother's milk

Deuteronomy 16:10

Then keep the feast of weeks to the Lord your God, with an offering freely given to him from the wealth he has given you:

Exodus 22:29

Do not keep back your offerings from the wealth of your grain and your vines. The first of your sons you are to give to me.

Leviticus 2:12

You may give them as an offering of first-fruits to the Lord, but they are not to go up as a sweet smell on the altar.

Leviticus 2:14

And if you give a meal offering of first-fruits to the Lord, give, as your offering of first-fruits, new grain, made dry with fire, crushed new grain.

Numbers 18:12-13

All the best of the oil and the wine and the grain, the first-fruits of them which they give to the Lord, to you have I given them.

Deuteronomy 12:5-6

But let your hearts be turned to the place which will be marked out by the Lord your God, among your tribes, to put his name there;

Deuteronomy 18:4

And in addition you are to give him the first of your grain and wine and oil, and the first wool cut from your sheep.

Joshua 18:1

And all the meeting of the children of Israel came together at Shiloh and put up the Tent of meeting there: and the land was crushed before them.

2 Kings 4:42

Now a man came from Baal-shalishah with an offering of first-fruits for the man of God, twenty barley cakes and garden fruit in his bag. And he said, Give these to the people for food.

2 Chronicles 6:6

But now I have made selection of Jerusalem, that my name might be there, and of David, to be over my people Israel.

2 Chronicles 31:5

And when the order was made public, straight away the children of Israel gave, in great amounts, the first-fruits of their grain and wine and oil and honey, and of the produce of their fields; and they took in a tenth part of everything, a great store.

Nehemiah 10:35-37

And to take the first-fruits of our land, and the first-fruits of every sort of tree, year by year, into the house of the Lord;

Nehemiah 12:44

And on that day certain men were put over the rooms where the things which had been given were stored, for the lifted offerings and the first-fruits and the tenths, and to take into them the amounts, from the fields of every town, fixed by the law for the priests and the Levites: for Judah was glad on account of the priests and the Levites who were in their places.

Nehemiah 13:31

And for the wood offering, at fixed times, and for the first fruits. Keep me in mind, O my God, for good.

Proverbs 3:9-10

Give honour to the Lord with your wealth, and with the first-fruits of all your increase:

Jeremiah 2:3

Israel was holy to the Lord, the first-fruits of his increase: all who made attacks on him were judged as wrongdoers, evil came on them, says the Lord.

Ezekiel 20:40

For in my holy mountain, in the high mountain of Israel, says the Lord, there all the children of Israel, all of them, will be my servants in the land; there I will take pleasure in them, and there I will be worshipped with your offerings and the first-fruits of the things you give, and with all your holy things.

Ezekiel 44:30

And the best of all the first-fruits of everything, and every offering which is lifted up of all your offerings, will be for the priests: and you are to give the priest the first of your bread-making, so causing a blessing to come on your house.

Ezekiel 48:14

And they are not to let any of it go for a price, or give it in exchange; and the part of the land given to the Lord is not to go into other hands: for it is holy to the Lord.

Romans 8:23

And not only so, but we who have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we have sorrow in our minds, waiting for the time when we will take our place as sons, that is, the salvation of our bodies.

Romans 11:16

And if the first-fruit is holy, so is the mass: and if the root is holy, so are the branches.

Romans 16:5

And say a kind word to the church which is in their house. Give my love to my dear Epaenetus, who is the first fruit of Asia to Christ.

1 Corinthians 15:20

But now Christ has truly come back from the dead, the first-fruits of those who are sleeping.

1 Corinthians 15:23

But every man in his right order: Christ the first-fruits; then those who are Christ's at his coming.

1 Corinthians 16:2

On the first day of the week, let every one of you put by him in store, in measure as he has done well in business, so that it may not be necessary to get money together when I come.

James 1:18

Of his purpose he gave us being, by his true word, so that we might be, in a sense, the first-fruits of all the things which he had made.

Revelation 14:4

These are they who have not made themselves unclean with women; for they are virgins. These are they who go after the Lamb wherever he goes. These were taken from among men to be the first fruits to God and to the Lamb.