Numbers 15:20
+ 15:20. Num 15:20 (Num 15:17-21) (#8.509): To set apart a portion of the dough to Adonai for the Cohenim ·Priests· Of the first of your dough you shall offer up a cake for a wave offering. As the wave offering of the threshing floor, so you shall heave it.
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Exodus 23:19+ 23:19. Ex 23:19 (Ex 34:26) (#8.489): To bring the best of the first fruits of your land into the house of Adonai your God The first of the first fruits of your ground you shall bring into the house of Adonai your God. + 23:19. Ex 23:19 (#3.193): T. This command is not found in the straightforward text (see Ex 34:26 OU195) / R. Not to seethe ·soak or saturate in liquid· a kid in its mother’s calav ·milk, fat· / R. Not to eat meat and milk cooked together Note: The Wycliffe Bible Commentary (1977 p.73) says from “the Ugarit literature discovered in 1930, it was learned that boiling a kid in its mother’s milk was a Canaanite [Descendant of Humbled] practice used in connection with fertility rites” / Note: Some scholars disagree about the interpretation of the Ugarit text, saying the translation is incorrect R. Note: In 1195, Rambam, also called Maimonides suggested, “As for the prohibition against eating meat ·boiled· in milk, it is in my opinion not improbable that – in addition to this being undoubtedly very gross food and very filling – idolatry had something to do with it. Perhaps such food was eaten at one of the ceremonies of their cult or one of their festivals” The Guide to the Perplexed (111:48) “You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk fat. (6)
Leviticus 2:12As an offering of first fruits you shall offer them to Adonai: but they shall not rise up for a pleasant aroma on the altar.
Leviticus 23:10+ 23:10. Lev 23:10 (Lev 23:9-14, 23:11, 23:15-16) (#4.297): T. To bring the First Fruits of your harvest, the Omer ·Sheath of grain· / R. To offer the wave offering from the grain of the new wheat T. Note: This is the First Fruits barley offering (#1 of the First Fruits offerings). Barley is considered the poor man’s grain, in contrast to wheat (think market value cost) “Speak to the children of Israel [God prevails], and tell them, ‘When you have come into the land which I give to you, and shall reap its harvest, then you shall bring the sheaf of the first fruits of your harvest to the priest:
Leviticus 23:17+ 23:17. Lev 23:17 (Lev 23:16-18, 23:15-20, 23:21; Num 28:26-31) (#4.302): To bring two loaves of bread together with the sacrifices that are offered because of the loaves on the Festival of Shavu'ot ·Weeks· / Pentacost ·50· You shall bring out of your habitations two loaves of bread for a wave offering made of one tenth of an ephah [two omers; 4.6 q; 4.4 L] of fine flour. They shall be baked with yeast, for first fruits to Adonai.
Numbers 18:12“I have given to you all the best of the oil, and all the best of the vintage, and of the grain, the first fruits of them which they give to Adonai.
Deuteronomy 26:2that you shall take some of the first of all the fruit of the ground, which you shall bring in from your land that Adonai your God gives you. You shall put it in a basket, and shall go to the place which Adonai your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell 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 →