Deuteronomy 18:4
4 aThe firstfruits of your grain, of your wine and of your oil, and the first fleece of your sheep, you shall give him.2 Chronicles 31:4-6
4And he commanded the people who lived in Jerusalem to give bthe portion due to the priests and the Levites, that they might give themselves to the Law of the Lord. 5As soon as the command was spread abroad, the people of Israel gave in abundance the firstfruits of grain, wine, oil, honey, and of all the produce of the field. And they brought in abundantly cthe tithe of everything. 6And the people of Israel and Judah who lived in the cities of Judah also brought in the tithe of cattle and sheep, and dthe tithe of the dedicated things that had been dedicated to the Lord their God, and laid them in heaps.2 Chronicles 31:10
10Azariah the chief priest, who was eof the house of Zadok, answered him, “Since they began to bring the contributions into the house of the Lord, we have eaten and had enough and have plenty left, ffor the Lord has blessed his people, so that we have this large amount left.”Nehemiah 10:35-37
35We obligate ourselves gto bring the firstfruits of our ground and the firstfruits of all fruit of every tree, year by year, to the house of the Lord; 36also to bring to the house of our God, to the priests who minister in the house of our God, the firstborn of our sons and of our cattle, has it is written in the Law, and the firstborn of our herds and of our flocks; 37 iand to bring the first of our dough, and our contributions, the fruit of every tree, the wine and the oil, to the priests, jto the chambers of the house of our God; and to bring to the Levites the tithes from our ground, for it is the Levites who collect the tithes in all our towns where we labor.James 1:18
18 kOf his own will he lbrought us forth by the word of truth, mthat we should be a kind of nfirstfruits of his creatures.
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