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Nehemiah 10:35-37
We will bring the firstfruits of our land and of every fruit tree to the LORD’s house year by year.We will also bring the firstborn of our sons and our livestock, as prescribed by the law, and will bring the firstborn of our herds and flocks to the house of our God, to the priests who serve in our God’s house.We will bring a loaf from our first batch of dough to the priests at the storerooms of the house of our God. We will also bring the firstfruits of our grain offerings, of every fruit tree, and of the new wine and fresh oil. A tenth of our land’s produce belongs to the Levites, for the Levites are to collect the one-tenth offering in all our agricultural towns.
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Exodus 23:19
“ Bring the best of the firstfruits of your land to the house of the LORD your God.“ You must not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.
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Exodus 13:12
you are to present to the LORD every firstborn male of the womb. All firstborn offspring of the livestock you own that are males will be the LORD’s.
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2 Chronicles 31 10
The chief priest Azariah, of the household of Zadok, answered him,“ Since they began bringing the offering to the LORD’s temple, we have been eating and are satisfied and there is plenty left over because the LORD has blessed his people; this abundance is what is left over.”
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Numbers 3:13
because every firstborn belongs to me. At the time I struck down every firstborn in the land of Egypt, I consecrated every firstborn in Israel to myself, both man and animal. They are mine; I am the LORD.”
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Numbers 15:19-21
you are to offer a contribution to the LORD when you eat from the food of the land.You are to offer a loaf from your first batch of dough as a contribution; offer it just like a contribution from the threshing floor.Throughout your generations, you are to give the LORD a contribution from the first batch of your dough.
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Exodus 13:2
“ Consecrate every firstborn male to me, the firstborn from every womb among the Israelites, both man and domestic animal; it is mine.”
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Numbers 18:12-18
I am giving you all the best of the fresh oil, new wine, and grain, which the Israelites give to the LORD as their firstfruits.The firstfruits of all that is in their land, which they bring to the LORD, belong to you. Every clean person in your house may eat them.“ Everything in Israel that is permanently dedicated to the LORD belongs to you.The firstborn of every living thing, human or animal, presented to the LORD belongs to you. But you must certainly redeem a human firstborn, and redeem the firstborn of an unclean animal.You will pay the redemption price for a month-old male according to your assessment: five shekels of silver by the standard sanctuary shekel, which is twenty gerahs.“ However, you must not redeem the firstborn of an ox, a sheep, or a goat; they are holy. You are to splatter their blood on the altar and burn their fat as a food offering for a pleasing aroma to the LORD.But their meat belongs to you. It belongs to you like the breast of the presentation offering and the right thigh.
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Exodus 22:29
“ You must not hold back offerings from your harvest or your vats. Give me the firstborn of your sons.
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Malachi 3:10-11
Bring the full tenth into the storehouse so that there may be food in my house. Test me in this way,” says the LORD of Armies.“ See if I will not open the floodgates of heaven and pour out a blessing for you without measure.I will rebuke the devourer for you, so that it will not ruin the produce of your land and your vine in your field will not fail to produce fruit,” says the LORD of Armies.
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Numbers 18:27-30
Your offering will be credited to you as if it were your grain from the threshing floor or the full harvest from the winepress.You are to present an offering to the LORD from every tenth you receive from the Israelites. Give some of it to the priest Aaron as an offering to the LORD.You must present the entire offering due the LORD from all your gifts. The best part of the tenth is to be consecrated.“ Tell them further: Once you have presented the best part of the tenth, and it is credited to you Levites as the produce of the threshing floor or the winepress,
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James 1:18
By his own choice, he gave us birth by the word of truth so that we would be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
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Proverbs 3:9-10
Honor the LORD with your possessions and with the first produce of your entire harvest;then your barns will be completely filled, and your vats will overflow with new wine.
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Deuteronomy 18:4
You are to give him the firstfruits of your grain, new wine, and fresh oil, and the first sheared wool of your flock.
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2 Chronicles 31 4-2 Chronicles 31 6
He told the people who lived in Jerusalem to give a contribution for the priests and Levites so that they could devote their energy to the law of the LORD.When the word spread, the Israelites gave liberally of the best of the grain, new wine, fresh oil, honey, and of all the produce of the field, and they brought in an abundance, a tenth of everything.As for the Israelites and Judahites who lived in the cities of Judah, they also brought a tenth of the herds and flocks, and a tenth of the dedicated things that were consecrated to the LORD their God. They gathered them into large piles.
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Deuteronomy 26:10-15
I have now brought the first of the land’s produce that you, LORD, have given me. You will then place the container before the LORD your God and bow down to him.You, the Levites, and the resident aliens among you will rejoice in all the good things the LORD your God has given you and your household.“ When you have finished paying all the tenth of your produce in the third year, the year of the tenth, you are to give it to the Levites, resident aliens, fatherless children, and widows, so that they may eat in your towns and be satisfied.Then you will say in the presence of the LORD your God: I have taken the consecrated portion out of my house; I have also given it to the Levites, resident aliens, fatherless children, and widows, according to all the commands you gave me. I have not violated or forgotten your commands.I have not eaten any of it while in mourning, or removed any of it while unclean, or offered any of it for the dead. I have obeyed the LORD my God; I have done all you commanded me.Look down from your holy dwelling, from heaven, and bless your people Israel and the land you have given us as you swore to our ancestors, a land flowing with milk and honey.
