Numbers 18:12
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“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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“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.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“All the best of the oil, and all the best of the wine, and of the wheat, the firstfruits of them which they shall offer unto the Lord, them have I given thee.”
King James Version · Public Domain“All the best of the oil, and all the best of the vintage, and of the grain, the first-fruits of them which they give unto Jehovah, to thee have I given them.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“all the best of the oil, and all the best of the new wine, and wheat--their first-<FI> fruits<Fi> which they give to Jehovah--to thee I have given them.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Numbers 18:12 — 13 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Exodus 22:29You must not hold back offerings from your granaries or vats. You are to give Me the firstborn of your sons.
- Exodus 23:19Bring 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.
- Exodus 34:26Bring 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 2:12You 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.
- Leviticus 2:14If you bring a grain offering of firstfruits to the LORD, you shall offer crushed heads of new grain roasted on the fire.
- Leviticus 23:17Bring 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.
- Leviticus 23:20The priest is to wave the lambs as a wave offering before the LORD, together with the bread of the firstfruits. The bread and the two lambs shall be holy to the LORD for the priest.
- Numbers 15:19and you eat the food of the land, you shall lift up an offering to the LORD.
- Deuteronomy 18:4You are to give them the firstfruits of your grain, new wine, and oil, and the first wool sheared from your flock.
- Deuteronomy 26:2you are to take some of the firstfruits of all your produce from the soil of the land that the LORD your God is giving you and put them in a basket. Then go to the place the LORD your God will choose as a dwelling for His Name,
- 2 Kings 4:42Now a man from Baal-shalishah came to the man of God with a sack of twenty loaves of barley bread from the first ripe grain. “Give it to the people to eat,” said Elisha.
- 2 Chronicles 31:5As 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.
- Nehemiah 10:35We will also bring the firstfruits of our land and of every fruit tree to the house of the LORD year by year.
Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).