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Deuteronomy 18:4
You are to give them the firstfruits of your grain, new wine, and oil, and the first wool sheared from your flock.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Moses instructs the Israelites on the eastern side of the Jordan regarding the permanent material support for the Levitical priests who will serve in the sanctuary.
The words — רֵאשִׁית (re.Shit) means the first or initial portion, and תִּתֶּן (ti.ten) carries the force of you must give.
The thread — The requirement to deliver initial agricultural yields appears in Exodus 22:29 and Exodus 23:19, and parallels the harvest offering instructions in Leviticus 23:10.
Why it lands — The text commands the people to physically hand over the first harvests and first wool to the priestly tribe before processing or consuming the rest.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
The firstfruit also of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thine oil, and the first of the fleece of thy sheep, shalt thou give him.
Cross-references
- Exodus 22:29 You must not hold back offerings from your granaries or vats. You are to give Me the firstborn of your sons.
- Exodus 23:19 Bring the best of the firstfruits of your soil to the house of the LORD your God. You must not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.
- Leviticus 23:10 “Speak to the Israelites and say, ‘When you enter the land that I am giving you and you reap its harvest, you are to bring to the priest a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest.
- Leviticus 23:17 Bring two loaves of bread from your dwellings as a wave offering, each made from two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour, baked with leaven, as the firstfruits to the LORD.
- Numbers 18:12 I give you all the freshest olive oil and all the finest new wine and grain that the Israelites give to the LORD as their firstfruits.
- 2 Chronicles 31:4 Moreover, he commanded the people living in Jerusalem to make a contribution for the priests and Levites so that they could devote themselves to the Law of the LORD.
- Nehemiah 12:44 And on that same day men were appointed over the rooms that housed the supplies, contributions, firstfruits, and tithes. The portions specified by the Law for the priests and Levites were gathered into these storerooms from the fields of the villages, because Judah rejoiced over the priests and Levites who were serving.
- Deuteronomy 26:9 And He brought us to this place and gave us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey.
- Job 21:20 Let his eyes see his own destruction; let him drink for himself the wrath of the Almighty.