Reuben, you are my firstborn,(A)
my strength and the firstfruits of my virility,(B)
excelling in prominence, excelling in power.

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16 Also observe the Festival of Harvest[a] with the firstfruits of your produce from what you sow in the field, and observe the Festival of Ingathering[b](A) at the end of the year, when you gather your produce[c] from the field.

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Footnotes

  1. 23:16 The Festival of Harvest is called Festival of Weeks elsewhere; Ex 34:22. In the NT it is called Pentecost; Ac 2:1.
  2. 23:16 The Festival of Ingathering is called Festival of Shelters elsewhere; Lv 23:34–36.
  3. 23:16 Lit labors

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.(A)

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22 “Observe the Festival of Weeks with the firstfruits of the wheat harvest, and the Festival of Ingathering[a] at the turn of the agricultural year.

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Footnotes

  1. 34:22 The Festival of Ingathering is called Festival of Shelters elsewhere; Lv 23:34–36.

26 “Bring the best firstfruits(A) 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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12 You may present them to the Lord as an offering of firstfruits,(A) but they are not to be offered on the altar as a pleasing aroma.

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14 “If you present a grain offering of firstfruits to the Lord, you are to present fresh heads of grain, crushed kernels, roasted on the fire, for your grain offering of firstfruits.

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17 Bring two loaves of bread from your settlements as a presentation offering, each of them made from four quarts of fine flour, baked with yeast, as firstfruits(A) to the Lord.

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20 The priest will present the lambs with the bread of firstfruits as a presentation offering before the Lord; the bread and the two lambs will be holy to the Lord for the priest.

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Offerings for the Festival of Weeks

26 “On the day of firstfruits, you are to hold a sacred assembly when you present an offering of new grain to the Lord at your Festival of Weeks;(A) you are not to do any daily work.

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Israel was holy to the Lord,(A)
the firstfruits of his harvest.(B)
All who ate of it found themselves guilty;(C)
disaster came on them.”
This is the Lord’s declaration.

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23 Not only that,(A) but we ourselves who have the Spirit as the firstfruits(B)—we also groan within ourselves,(C) eagerly waiting for adoption,(D) the redemption of our bodies.(E)

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16 Now if the firstfruits are holy,(A) so is the whole batch. And if the root is holy, so are the branches.

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Christ’s Resurrection Guarantees Ours

20 But as it is, Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits(A) of those who have fallen asleep.

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23 But each in his own order:(A) Christ, the firstfruits; afterward, at his coming, those who belong to Christ.

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15 Brothers and sisters, you know the household of Stephanas: They are the firstfruits(A) of Achaia(B) and have devoted themselves to serving the saints. I urge you

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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.(A)

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These are the ones who have not defiled themselves with women, since they remained virgins.(A) These are the ones who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. They were redeemed[a] from humanity as the firstfruits(B) for God and the Lamb.

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Footnotes

  1. 14:4 Other mss add by Jesus

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