Leviticus 23:10

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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:

When

Leviticus 14:34

And shall

The firstfruits

General references

Leviticus 23:15

Numbers 15:2

Bible References

When

"When you have come into the land of Canaan, which I give to you for a possession, and I put a spreading mildew in a house in the land of your possession,

And shall

As an offering of firstfruits you shall offer them to Yahweh: but they shall not ascend for a pleasant aroma on the altar.

"You shall not delay to offer from your harvest and from the outflow of your presses. "You shall give the firstborn of your sons to me.

And the feast of harvest, the first fruits of your labors, which you sow in the field: and the feast of harvest, at the end of the year, when you gather in your labors out of the field.

"You shall observe the feast of weeks with the first fruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of harvest at the year's end.

"Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, 'When you have come into the land of your habitations, which I give to you,

"'Also in the day of the first fruits, when you offer a new meal offering to Yahweh in your [feast of] weeks, you shall have a holy convocation; you shall do no servile work;

You shall count for yourselves seven weeks: from the time you begin to put the sickle to the standing grain you shall begin to number seven weeks.

and when those who bore the ark had come to the Jordan, and the feet of the priests who bore the ark had dipped in the edge of the water (for the Jordan overflows all its banks all the time of harvest),

The firstfruits

Honor Yahweh with your substance, with the first fruits of all your increase:

The first of all the first fruits of every thing, and every offering of everything, of all your offerings, shall be for the priest: you shall also give to the priests the first of your dough, to cause a blessing to rest on your house.

If the first fruit is holy, so is the lump. If the root is holy, so are the branches.

But now Christ has been raised from the dead. He became the first fruits of those who are asleep.

Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.

These are those who were not defiled with women, for they are virgins. These are those who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. These were redeemed by Jesus from among men, the first fruits to God and to the Lamb.

General references

"'You shall count from the next day after the Sabbath, from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven Sabbaths shall be completed:

"Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, 'When you have come into the land of your habitations, which I give to you,