Numbers 15:20

from the foods that you eat. Just as you separate the first-fruits of your threshing floors,

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In The King James Version

Ye shall offer up a cake of the first of your dough for an heave offering: as ye do the heave offering of the threshingfloor, so shall ye heave it.

In Context

19and when you will eat from the bread of that region, you shall separate the first-fruits to the Lord

21so also shall you give the first-fruits of your cooked grains to the Lord.

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Cross References

Exodus 23:19You shall carry the first grain of the land to the house of the Lord your God. You shall not cook a young goat in the milk of its mother.

Leviticus 2:12You shall offer only the first-fruits of these along with the gifts. Yet truly, these shall not be placed upon the altar as an odor of sweetness.

Leviticus 23:10Speak to the sons of Israel, and you shall say to them: When you will have entered into the land which I will give to you, and you will have harvested your grain fields, you shall carry the sheaves of grain, the first-fruits of your harvest, to the priest.

Leviticus 23:17from all of your dwelling places: two loaves from the first-fruits, from two-tenths of leavened fine wheat flour, which you shall bake as the first-fruits of the Lord.

Numbers 18:12All the innermost of the oil, and of the wine, and of the grain, whatever first-fruits they offer to the Lord, I have given to you.

Deuteronomy 26:2you shall take the first of all your crops, and place them in a basket, and you shall travel to the place which the Lord your God will choose, so that his name may be invoked there.

Matthew Henry on Numbers 15:2-22

Laws Concerning Sacrifices. ( b. c. 1490.) 1 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come into the land of your habitations, which I give unto you, 3 And will make an offering by fire unto the Lord , a burnt offering, or a sacrifice in performing a vow, or in a freewill offering, or in your solemn feasts, to make a sweet savour unto the Lord , of the herd, or of the flock: 4 Then shall he that offereth his offering unto the Lord bring a meat… Read the whole commentary →

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