Deuteronomy 15:19

Bible in Basic English (1941)

All the first males to come to birth in your herd and your flock are to be holy to the Lord your God: the first birth of your ox is not to be used for work, the wool of your first lamb is not to be cut.

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Referenced Verses

  • Exod 13:2 : 2 Let the first male child of every mother among the children of Israel be kept holy for me, even the first male birth among man or beast; for it is mine.
  • Exod 13:12 : 12 You are to put on one side for the Lord every mother's first male child, the first-fruit of her body, and the first young one of every beast; every male is holy to the Lord.
  • Lev 27:26 : 26 But a man may not give by oath to the Lord the first-fruits of cattle which are offered to the Lord: if it is an ox or a sheep it is the Lord's.
  • Num 18:15 : 15 The first birth of every living thing which is offered to the Lord, of man or beast, is to be yours; but for the first sons of man payment is to be made, and for the first young of unclean beasts.
  • Num 18:17 : 17 But no such payment may be made for the first birth of an ox or a sheep or a goat; these are holy: their blood is to be dropped on the altar, and their fat burned for an offering made by fire, a sweet smell to the Lord.
  • Deut 12:17 : 17 In your towns you are not to take as food the tenth part of your grain, or of your wine or your oil, or the first births of your herds or of your flocks, or anything offered under an oath, or freely offered to the Lord, or given as a lifted offering;
  • Deut 16:14 : 14 You are to keep the feast with joy, you and your son and your daughter, your man-servant and your woman-servant, and the Levite, and the man from a strange country, and the child without a father, and the widow, who are living among you.
  • Rom 8:29 : 29 Because those of whom he had knowledge before they came into existence, were marked out by him to be made like his Son, so that he might be the first among a band of brothers:
  • Heb 12:23 : 23 To the great meeting and church of the first of those who are named in heaven, and to God the judge of all, and to the spirits of good men made complete,
  • Deut 14:23 : 23 And make a feast before the Lord your God, in the place which is to be marked out, where his name will be for ever, of the tenth part of your grain and your wine and your oil, and the first births of your herds and your flocks; so that you may have the fear of the Lord your God in your hearts at all times.
  • Deut 16:11 : 11 Then you are to be glad before the Lord your God, you and your son and your daughter, your man-servant and your woman-servant, and the Levite who is with you, and the man from a strange country, and the child without a father, and the widow, who are living among you, in the place marked out by the Lord your God as a resting-place for his name.
  • Deut 12:5-7 : 5 But let your hearts be turned to the place which will be marked out by the Lord your God, among your tribes, to put his name there; 6 And there you are to take your burned offerings and other offerings, and the tenth part of your goods, and the offerings to be lifted up to the Lord, and the offerings of your oaths, and those which you give freely from the impulse of your hearts, and the first births among your herds and your flocks; 7 There you and all your families are to make a feast before the Lord your God, with joy in everything to which you put your hand, because the Lord has given you his blessing.
  • Num 3:13 : 13 For all the first sons are mine; on the day when I put to death all the first sons in the land of Egypt, I took for myself every first male birth of man and beast. They are mine; I am the Lord.
  • Exod 34:19 : 19 Every first male child is mine; the first male birth of your cattle, the first male of every ox and sheep.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Lev 27:26
    82%

    26But a man may not give by oath to the Lord the first-fruits of cattle which are offered to the Lord: if it is an ox or a sheep it is the Lord's.

  • Exod 13:11-13
    3 verses
    82%

    11And when the Lord takes you into the land of Canaan, as he made his oath to you and to your fathers, and gives it to you,

    12You are to put on one side for the Lord every mother's first male child, the first-fruit of her body, and the first young one of every beast; every male is holy to the Lord.

    13And for the young of an ass you may give a lamb in payment, or if you will not make payment for it, its neck is to be broken; but for all the first sons among your children, let payment be made.

  • Exod 34:19-20
    2 verses
    81%

    19Every first male child is mine; the first male birth of your cattle, the first male of every ox and sheep.

    20A lamb may be given in payment for the young of an ass, but if you will not make payment for it, its neck will have to be broken. For all the first of your sons you are to make payment. No one is to come before me without an offering.

  • Deut 18:4
    80%

    4And in addition you are to give him the first of your grain and wine and oil, and the first wool cut from your sheep.

  • Num 18:17
    80%

    17But no such payment may be made for the first birth of an ox or a sheep or a goat; these are holy: their blood is to be dropped on the altar, and their fat burned for an offering made by fire, a sweet smell to the Lord.

  • Num 18:13-15
    3 verses
    79%

    13The earliest produce from their land which they take to the Lord is to be yours; everyone in your house who is clean may have it for his food.

    14Everything given by oath to the Lord in Israel is to be yours.

    15The first birth of every living thing which is offered to the Lord, of man or beast, is to be yours; but for the first sons of man payment is to be made, and for the first young of unclean beasts.

  • Exod 23:19
    79%

    19The best of the first-fruits of your land are to be taken into the house of the Lord your God. The young goat is not to be cooked in its mother's milk.

  • Exod 22:29-30
    2 verses
    79%

    29Do not keep back your offerings from the wealth of your grain and your vines. The first of your sons you are to give to me.

    30In the same way with your oxen and your sheep: for seven days let the young one be with its mother; on the eighth day give it to me.

  • Exod 34:26
    78%

    26Take the first-fruits of your land as an offering to the house of the Lord your God. Let not the young goat be cooked in its mother's milk

  • Deut 15:20-21
    2 verses
    77%

    20But year by year you and all your house are to take a meal of it before the Lord, in the place of his selection.

    21But if it has any mark on it, if it is blind or has damaged legs, or if there is anything wrong with it, it may not be offered to the Lord your God.

  • Exod 13:1-2
    2 verses
    76%

    1And the Lord said to Moses,

    2Let the first male child of every mother among the children of Israel be kept holy for me, even the first male birth among man or beast; for it is mine.

  • Num 28:18-19
    2 verses
    76%

    18On the first day there is to be a holy meeting: you may do no sort of field-work:

    19And you are to give an offering made by fire, a burned offering to the Lord; two oxen, one male sheep, and seven he-lambs of the first year, without any mark:

  • Deut 17:1
    76%

    1No ox or sheep which has a mark on it or is damaged in any way may be offered to the Lord your God: for that is disgusting to the Lord your God.

  • Lev 22:19
    75%

    19So that it may be pleasing to the Lord, let him give a male, without any mark, from among the oxen or the sheep or the goats.

  • Exod 12:5
    74%

    5Let your lamb be without a mark, a male in its first year: you may take it from among the sheep or the goats:

  • Deut 12:17
    74%

    17In your towns you are not to take as food the tenth part of your grain, or of your wine or your oil, or the first births of your herds or of your flocks, or anything offered under an oath, or freely offered to the Lord, or given as a lifted offering;

  • Deut 12:6
    74%

    6And there you are to take your burned offerings and other offerings, and the tenth part of your goods, and the offerings to be lifted up to the Lord, and the offerings of your oaths, and those which you give freely from the impulse of your hearts, and the first births among your herds and your flocks;

  • Deut 15:14
    74%

    14But give him freely from your flock and from your grain and your wine: in the measure of the wealth which the Lord your God has given you, you are to give to him.

  • Lev 19:19
    74%

    19Keep my laws. Do not let your cattle have offspring by those of a different sort; do not put mixed seed into your field; do not put on a robe made of two sorts of cloth.

  • Neh 10:36
    73%

    36As well as the first of our sons and of our cattle, as it is recorded in the law, and the first lambs of our herds and of our flocks, which are to be taken to the house of our God, to the priests who are servants in the house of our God:

  • Deut 14:21-22
    2 verses
    73%

    21You may not have as food anything which has come to a natural death; the man from another country who is living with you may take it for food, or you may get a price for it from one of another nation; for you are a holy people to the Lord your God. The young goat is not to be cooked in its mother's milk.

    22Put on one side a tenth of all the increase of your seed, produced year by year.

  • Lev 27:32
    73%

    32And a tenth part of the herd and of the flock, whatever goes under the rod of the valuer, will be holy to the Lord.

  • Exod 13:15
    73%

    15And when Pharaoh made his heart hard and would not let us go, the Lord sent death on all the first sons in Egypt, of man and of beast: and so every first male who comes to birth is offered to the Lord; but for all the first of my sons I give a price.

  • Num 15:11
    73%

    11This is to be done for every young ox and for every male sheep or he-lamb or young goat.

  • Lev 1:2
    73%

    2Give these orders to the children of Israel: When anyone of you makes an offering to the Lord, you are to take it from the cattle, from the herd or from the flock.

  • Num 8:17
    73%

    17For every mother's first son among the children of Israel is mine, the first male birth of man or beast: on the day when I sent death on all the first sons in the land of Egypt, I made them mine.

  • Deut 5:14
    72%

    14But the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God; on that day do no work, you or your son or your daughter, or your man-servant or your woman-servant, or your ox or your ass or any of your cattle, or the man from a strange country who is living among you; so that your man-servant and your woman-servant may have rest as well as you.

  • Num 28:26
    72%

    26And at the time of the first-fruits, when you give an offering of new meal to the Lord at your feast of weeks, there is to be a holy meeting: you may do no field-work:

  • Lev 22:27-28
    2 verses
    72%

    27When an ox or a sheep or a goat is given birth, let it be with its mother for seven days; and after the eighth day it may be taken as an offering made by fire to the Lord.

    28A cow or a sheep may not be put to death with its young on the same day.

  • Exod 29:1
    72%

    1This is what you are to do to make them holy, to do the work of priests to me: Take one young ox and two male sheep, without any mark on them,

  • Num 29:26
    72%

    26And on the fifth day nine oxen, two male sheep, fourteen he-lambs of the first year, without any mark:

  • Num 29:13
    72%

    13And give a burned offering, an offering made by fire of a sweet smell to the Lord, thirteen oxen, two male sheep, fourteen he-lambs of the first year, all without any mark on them;

  • Num 3:41
    72%

    41And give to me the Levites (I am the Lord) in place of the first sons of the children of Israel; and the cattle of the Levites in place of the first births among the cattle of the children of Israel.

  • Num 29:36
    72%

    36And give a burned offering, an offering made by fire of a sweet smell to the Lord: one ox, one male sheep, seven he-lambs of the first year, without any mark:

  • Lev 23:10
    72%

    10Say to the children of Israel, When you have come to the land which I will give you, and have got in the grain from its fields, take some of the first-fruits of the grain to the priest;

  • Num 29:20
    71%

    20And on the third day eleven oxen, two male sheep, fourteen he-lambs of the first year, without any mark;

  • Ps 50:9
    71%

    9I will take no ox out of your house, or he-goats from your flocks;

  • Num 29:29
    71%

    29And on the sixth day eight oxen, two male sheep, fourteen he-lambs of the first year, without any mark:

  • Exod 23:16
    71%

    16And the feast of the grain-cutting, the first-fruits of your planted fields: and the feast at the start of the year, when you have got in all the fruit from your fields.