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First Fruits: First Ripe of Fruits, Grain, Oil, Wine, and First of Fleece, Required As an offering Exodus 22:29

You must not hold back offerings from your granaries or vats. You are to give Me the firstborn of your sons.

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First Fruits: First Ripe of Fruits, Grain, Oil, Wine, and First of Fleece, Required As an offering Leviticus 2:12–16

You may bring them to the LORD as an offering of firstfruits, but they are not to be offered on the altar as a pleasing aroma. / And you shall season each of your grain offerings with salt. You must not leave the salt of the covenant of your God out of your grain offering; you are to add salt to each of your offerings. / If you bring a grain offering of firstfruits to the LORD, you shall offer crushed heads of new grain roasted on the fire.

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First Fruits: First Ripe of Fruits, Grain, Oil, Wine, and First of Fleece, Required As an offering 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.

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First Fruits: First Ripe of Fruits, Grain, Oil, Wine, and First of Fleece, Required As an offering 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.

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First Fruits: First Ripe of Fruits, Grain, Oil, Wine, and First of Fleece, Required As an offering 2 Chronicles 31:5

As soon as the order went out, the Israelites generously provided the firstfruits of the grain, new wine, oil, and honey, and of all the produce of the field, and they brought in an abundance—a tithe of everything.

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First Fruits: First Ripe of Fruits, Grain, Oil, Wine, and First of Fleece, Required As an offering Nehemiah 10:35, 37, 39

We will also bring the firstfruits of our land and of every fruit tree to the house of the LORD year by year. / Moreover, we will bring to the priests at the storerooms of the house of our God the firstfruits of our dough, of our grain offerings, of the fruit of all our trees, and of our new wine and oil. A tenth of our produce belongs to the Levites, so that they shall receive tithes in all the towns where we labor. / For the Israelites and the Levites are to bring the contributions of grain, new wine, and oil to the storerooms where the articles of the sanctuary are kept and where the ministering priests, the gatekeepers, and the singers stay. Thus we will not neglect the house of our God.”

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First Fruits: First Ripe of Fruits, Grain, Oil, Wine, and First of Fleece, Required As an offering Proverbs 3:9

Honor the LORD with your wealth and with the firstfruits of all your harvest;

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First Fruits: First Ripe of Fruits, Grain, Oil, Wine, and First of Fleece, Required As an offering Jeremiah 2:3

Israel was holy to the LORD, the firstfruits of His harvest. All who devoured her found themselves guilty; disaster came upon them,’” declares the LORD.

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First Fruits: First Ripe of Fruits, Grain, Oil, Wine, and First of Fleece, Required As an offering Romans 11:16

If the first part of the dough is holy, so is the whole batch; if the root is holy, so are the branches.

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