Leviticus 23:17

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Take from your houses two cakes of bread, made of a fifth part of an ephah of the best meal, cooked with leaven, to be waved for first-fruits to the Lord.

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  • Lev 23:10 : 10 Say 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;
  • Exod 23:19 : 19 The 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 34:22 : 22 And you are to keep the feast of weeks when you get in the first-fruits of the grain, and the feast at the turn of the year when you take in the produce of your fields.
  • Exod 34:26 : 26 Take 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
  • Num 28:26 : 26 And 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 7:13 : 13 With his peace-offering let him give cakes of leavened bread, as a praise-offering.
  • Deut 26:1-2 : 1 Now when you have come into the land which the Lord is giving you for your heritage, and you have made it yours and are living in it; 2 You are to take a part of the first-fruits of the earth, which you get from the land which the Lord your God is giving you, and put it in a basket, and go to the place marked out by the Lord your God, as the resting-place of his name.
  • Prov 3:9-9 : 9 Give honour to the Lord with your wealth, and with the first-fruits of all your increase: 10 So your store-houses will be full of grain, and your vessels overflowing with new wine.
  • Matt 13:33 : 33 Another story he gave to them: The kingdom of heaven is like leaven, which a woman took, and put in three measures of meal, till it was all leavened.
  • Rom 8:23 : 23 And not only so, but we who have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we have sorrow in our minds, waiting for the time when we will take our place as sons, that is, the salvation of our bodies.
  • 1 Cor 15:20 : 20 But now Christ has truly come back from the dead, the first-fruits of those who are sleeping.
  • Jas 1:18 : 18 Of his purpose he gave us being, by his true word, so that we might be, in a sense, the first-fruits of all the things which he had made.
  • Rev 14:4 : 4 These are they who have not made themselves unclean with women; for they are virgins. These are they who go after the Lamb wherever he goes. These were taken from among men to be the first fruits to God and to the Lamb.
  • Lev 2:12 : 12 You may give them as an offering of first-fruits to the Lord, but they are not to go up as a sweet smell on the altar.
  • Num 15:17 : 17 And the Lord said to Moses,
  • Num 15:19-21 : 19 Then, when you take for your food the produce of the land, you are to give an offering lifted up before the Lord. 20 Of the first of your rough meal you are to give a cake for a lifted offering, lifting it up before the Lord as the offering of the grain-floor is lifted up. 21 From generation to generation you are to give to the Lord a lifted offering from the first of your rough meal.
  • Exod 22:29 : 29 Do 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.
  • Exod 23:16 : 16 And 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.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Lev 23:18-20
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    85%

    18 And with the bread, take seven lambs of the first year, without any marks, and one ox and two male sheep, to be a burned offering to the Lord, with their meal offering and their drink offerings, an offering of a sweet smell made by fire to the Lord.

    19 And you are to give one male goat for a sin-offering and two male lambs of the first year for peace-offerings.

    20 And these will be waved by the priest, with the bread of the first-fruits, for a wave offering to the Lord, with the two lambs: they will be holy to the Lord for the priest.

  • Lev 23:9-16
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    82%

    9 And the Lord said to Moses,

    10 Say 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;

    11 And let the grain be waved before the Lord, so that you may be pleasing to him; on the day after the Sabbath let it be waved by the priest.

    12 And on the day of the waving of the grain, you are to give a male lamb of the first year, without any mark, for a burned offering to the Lord.

    13 And let the meal offering with it be two tenth parts of an ephah of the best meal mixed with oil, an offering made by fire to the Lord for a sweet smell; and the drink offering with it is to be of wine, the fourth part of a hin.

    14 And you may take no bread or dry grain or new grain for food till the very day on which you have given the offering for your God: this is a rule for ever through all your generations wherever you are living.

    15 And let seven full weeks be numbered from the day after the Sabbath, the day when you give the grain for the wave offering;

    16 Let fifty days be numbered, to the day after the seventh Sabbath; then you are to give a new meal offering to the Lord.

  • Num 15:19-21
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    80%

    19 Then, when you take for your food the produce of the land, you are to give an offering lifted up before the Lord.

    20 Of the first of your rough meal you are to give a cake for a lifted offering, lifting it up before the Lord as the offering of the grain-floor is lifted up.

    21 From generation to generation you are to give to the Lord a lifted offering from the first of your rough meal.

  • Exod 29:23-24
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    78%

    23 And take one bit of bread and one cake of oiled bread and one thin cake out of the basket of unleavened bread which is before the Lord:

    24 And put them all on the hands of Aaron and of his sons, to be waved for a wave offering before the Lord.

  • Exod 29:2
    78%

    2 And unleavened bread, and unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and thin unleavened cakes on which oil has been put, made of the best bread-meal;

  • Num 28:9
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    9 And on the Sabbath day, two he-lambs of the first year, without any mark, and two tenth parts of the best meal for a meal offering mixed with oil, and its drink offering:

  • Lev 24:5
    76%

    5 And take the best meal and make twelve cakes of it, a fifth part of an ephah in every cake.

  • Num 6:15-16
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    76%

    15 And a basket of unleavened bread, cakes of the best meal mixed with oil, and thin unleavened cakes covered with oil, with their meal offering and drink offerings.

    16 And the priest will take them before the Lord, and make his sin-offering and his burned offering;

  • Lev 2:11-12
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    76%

    11 No meal offering which you give to the Lord is to be made with leaven; no leaven or honey is to be burned as an offering made by fire to the Lord.

    12 You may give them as an offering of first-fruits to the Lord, but they are not to go up as a sweet smell on the altar.

  • Lev 2:14
    75%

    14 And if you give a meal offering of first-fruits to the Lord, give, as your offering of first-fruits, new grain, made dry with fire, crushed new grain.

  • Num 28:26-27
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    75%

    26 And 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:

    27 And give a burned offering for a sweet smell to the Lord; two oxen, one male sheep, and seven he-lambs of the first year;

  • Lev 2:8
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    8 And you are to give the meal offering made of these things to the Lord, and let the priest take it to the altar.

  • Lev 2:4-5
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    4 And when you give a meal offering cooked in the oven, let it be of unleavened cakes of the best meal mixed with oil, or thin unleavened cakes covered with oil.

    5 And if you give a meal offering cooked on a flat plate, let it be of the best meal, unleavened and mixed with oil.

  • Num 28:17
    75%

    17 On the fifteenth day of this month there is to be a feast; for seven days let your food be unleavened cakes.

  • Lev 23:6
    74%

    6 And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread; for seven days let your food be unleavened bread.

  • Ezek 44:30
    74%

    30 And the best of all the first-fruits of everything, and every offering which is lifted up of all your offerings, will be for the priests: and you are to give the priest the first of your bread-making, so causing a blessing to come on your house.

  • Exod 34:22
    74%

    22 And you are to keep the feast of weeks when you get in the first-fruits of the grain, and the feast at the turn of the year when you take in the produce of your fields.

  • Exod 13:6
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    6 For seven days let your food be unleavened cakes; and on the seventh day there is to be a feast to the Lord.

  • Num 18:13
    74%

    13 The 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.

  • Num 28:19
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    19 And 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:

  • Exod 23:16
    74%

    16 And 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.

  • Lev 6:21
    74%

    21 But the vessel of earth in which the flesh was cooked is to be broken; or if a brass vessel was used, it is to be rubbed clean and washed out with water.

  • Exod 12:15
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    15 For seven days let your food be unleavened bread; from the first day no leaven is to be seen in your houses: whoever takes bread with leaven in it, from the first till the seventh day, will be cut off from Israel.

  • Num 28:5
    73%

    5 And the tenth part of an ephah of the best meal for a meal offering mixed with the fourth part of a hin of clear oil.

  • Lev 24:7
    73%

    7 And on the lines of cakes put clean sweet-smelling spices, for a sign on the bread, an offering made by fire to the Lord.

  • Neh 10:35
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    35 And to take the first-fruits of our land, and the first-fruits of every sort of tree, year by year, into the house of the Lord;

  • Lev 6:17
    73%

    17 And the Lord said to Moses,

  • Deut 16:10
    73%

    10 Then keep the feast of weeks to the Lord your God, with an offering freely given to him from the wealth he has given you:

  • Lev 7:13
    73%

    13 With his peace-offering let him give cakes of leavened bread, as a praise-offering.

  • Amos 4:5
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    5 Let that which is leavened be burned as a praise-offering, let the news of your free offerings be given out publicly; for this is pleasing to you, O children of Israel, says the Lord.

  • Deut 26:10
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    10 So now, I have come here with the first of the fruits of the earth which you, O Lord, have given me. Then you will put it down before the Lord your God and give him worship:

  • Lev 23:37
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    37 These are the fixed feasts of the Lord, to be kept by you as holy days of worship, for making an offering by fire to the Lord; a burned offering, a meal offering, an offering of beasts, and drink offerings; every one on its special day;

  • Deut 26:2
    72%

    2 You are to take a part of the first-fruits of the earth, which you get from the land which the Lord your God is giving you, and put it in a basket, and go to the place marked out by the Lord your God, as the resting-place of his name.

  • Num 15:4
    72%

    4 Then let him who is making his offering, give to the Lord a meal offering of a tenth part of a measure of the best meal mixed with a fourth part of a hin of oil: