Exodus 22:29
29“You shall not delay to offer from the fullness of your harvest and from the outflow of your presses. aThe firstborn of your sons you shall give to me.Exodus 23:19
19“The best of the bfirstfruits of your ground you shall bring into the house of the Lord your God.c“You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.
Exodus 34:22
22 dYou shall observe the Feast of Weeks, the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the Feast of Ingathering at the year’s end.Exodus 34:26
26 eThe best of the firstfruits of your ground you shall bring to the house of the Lord your God. fYou shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.”Numbers 18:12
12 gAll the best of the oil and all the best of the wine and of the grain, hthe firstfruits of what they give to the Lord, I give to you.Nehemiah 10:35-39
35We obligate ourselves ito 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, jas it is written in the Law, and the firstborn of our herds and of our flocks; 37 kand to bring the first of our dough, and our contributions, the fruit of every tree, the wine and the oil, to the priests, lto 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. 38And the priest, the son of Aaron, shall be with the Levites when the Levites receive the tithes. And the Levites shall bring up the tithe of the tithes to the house of our God, to the chambers of mthe storehouse. 39For the people of Israel and the sons of Levi nshall bring the contribution of grain, wine, and oil to the chambers, where the vessels of the sanctuary are, as well as the priests who minister, and the gatekeepers and the singers. oWe will not neglect the house of our God.”Nehemiah 12:44
Service at the Temple
44 pOn that day men were appointed over the storerooms, the contributions, the firstfruits, and the tithes, to gather into them the portions required by the Law for the priests and for the Levites according to the fields of the towns, for Judah rejoiced over the priests and the Levites who ministered.Nehemiah 13:12
12Then all Judah brought qthe tithe of the grain, wine, and oil into the storehouses.Nehemiah 13:31
31and I provided rfor the wood offering sat appointed times, and for the firstfruits.tRemember me, O my God, for good.
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