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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“Reuben, you are my firstborn,(A)
    my might, the first sign of my strength,(B)
    excelling in honor,(C) 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

16 “Celebrate the Festival of Harvest(A) with the firstfruits(B) of the crops you sow in your field.

“Celebrate the Festival of Ingathering(C) at the end of the year, when you gather in your crops from the field.(D)

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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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19 “Bring the best of the firstfruits(A) of your soil to the house of the Lord your God.

“Do not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.(B)

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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.

22 “Celebrate the Festival of Weeks with the firstfruits(A) of the wheat harvest, and the Festival of Ingathering(B) at the turn of the year.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 34:22 That is, in the autumn

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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26 “Bring the best of the firstfruits(A) of your soil to the house of the Lord your God.

“Do not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.”(B)

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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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12 You may bring them to the Lord as an offering of the 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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14 “‘If you bring a grain offering of firstfruits(A) to the Lord, offer crushed heads of new grain roasted in the fire.

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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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17 From wherever you live, bring two loaves made of two-tenths of an ephah(A) of the finest flour, baked with yeast, as a wave offering of firstfruits(B) 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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20 The priest is to wave the two lambs before the Lord as a wave offering,(A) together with the bread of the firstfruits. They are a sacred offering 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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The Festival of Weeks(A)

26 “‘On the day of firstfruits,(B) when you present to the Lord an offering of new grain during the Festival of Weeks,(C) hold a sacred assembly and do no regular work.(D)

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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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Israel was holy(A) to the Lord,(B)
    the firstfruits(C) of his harvest;
all who devoured(D) her were held guilty,(E)
    and disaster overtook them,’”
declares the Lord.

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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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23 Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit,(A) groan(B) inwardly as we wait eagerly(C) for our adoption to sonship, the redemption of our bodies.(D)

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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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16 If the part of the dough offered as firstfruits(A) is holy, then the whole batch is holy; if the root is holy, so are the branches.

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