Nehemiah 10:35

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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;

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  • 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.
  • Deut 26:2 : 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.
  • 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 18:12 : 12 All the best of the oil and the wine and the grain, the first-fruits of them which they give to the Lord, to you have I given them.
  • Lev 19:23-26 : 23 And when you have come into the land, and have put in all sorts of fruit-trees, their fruit will be as if they had not had circumcision, and for three years their fruit may not be used for food. 24 And in the fourth year all the fruit will be holy as a praise-offering to the Lord. 25 But in the fifth year you may take the fruit and the increase of it for your food: I am the Lord your God. 26 Nothing may be used for food with its blood in it; you may not make use of strange arts, or go in search of signs and wonders.
  • Num 18:2 : 2 Let your brothers, the family of Levi, come near with you, so that they may be joined with you and be your servants: but you and your sons with you are to go in before the ark of witness.
  • 2 Chr 31:3-9 : 3 And he gave the king's part of his private property for the burned offerings, that is, for the morning and evening offerings, and the offerings for the Sabbath and the new moons and the regular feasts, as it is recorded in the law of the Lord. 4 In addition, he gave orders to the people of Jerusalem to give to the priests and Levites that part which was theirs by right, so that they might be strong in keeping the law of the Lord. 5 And when the order was made public, straight away the children of Israel gave, in great amounts, the first-fruits of their grain and wine and oil and honey, and of the produce of their fields; and they took in a tenth part of everything, a great store. 6 And the children of Israel and Judah, who were living in the towns of Judah came with the tenth part of their oxen and sheep, and a tenth of all the holy things which were to be given to the Lord their God, and put them in great masses. 7 The first store of things was put down in the third month, and in the seventh month the masses were complete. 8 And when Hezekiah and the rulers came and saw all the store of goods, they gave praise to the Lord and to his people Israel. 9 Then Hezekiah put questions to the priests and Levites about the store of goods. 10 And Azariah, the chief priest, of the family of Zadok, said in answer, From the time when the people first came with their offerings into the house of the Lord, we have had food enough, and more than enough: for the blessing of the Lord is on his people; and there is this great store which has not been used.
  • 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.
  • Mal 3:8-9 : 8 Will a man keep back from God what is right? But you have kept back what is mine. But you say, What have we kept back from you? Tenths and offerings. 9 You are cursed with a curse; for you have kept back from me what is mine, even all this nation. 10 Let your tenths come into the store-house so that there may be food in my house, and put me to the test by doing so, says the Lord of armies, and see if I do not make the windows of heaven open and send down such a blessing on you that there is no room for it. 11 And on your account I will keep back the locusts from wasting the fruits of your land; and the fruit of your vine will not be dropped on the field before its time, says the Lord of armies 12 And you will be named happy by all nations: for you will be a land of delight, says the Lord of armies.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Neh 10:36-39
    4 verses
    87%

    36 As 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:

    37 And that we would take the first of our rough meal, and our lifted offerings, and the fruit of every sort of tree, and wine and oil, to the priests, to the rooms of the house of our God; and the tenth of the produce of our land to the Levites; for they, the Levites, take a tenth in all the towns of our ploughed land.

    38 And the priest, the son of Aaron, is to be with the Levites, when the Levites take the tenths: and the Levites are to take a tenth of the tenths into the house of our God, to the rooms, into the store-house;

    39 For the children of Israel and the children of Levi are to take the lifted offering of the grain and wine and oil into the rooms where the vessels of the holy place are, together with the priests and the door-keepers and the makers of music: and we will not give up caring for the house of our God.

  • Deut 26:10
    83%

    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:

  • Deut 26:1-2
    2 verses
    80%

    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.

  • Lev 23:10
    79%

    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;

  • 2 Chr 31:5-6
    2 verses
    79%

    5 And when the order was made public, straight away the children of Israel gave, in great amounts, the first-fruits of their grain and wine and oil and honey, and of the produce of their fields; and they took in a tenth part of everything, a great store.

    6 And the children of Israel and Judah, who were living in the towns of Judah came with the tenth part of their oxen and sheep, and a tenth of all the holy things which were to be given to the Lord their God, and put them in great masses.

  • Prov 3:9
    78%

    9 Give honour to the Lord with your wealth, and with the first-fruits of all your increase:

  • Num 18:12-13
    2 verses
    78%

    12 All the best of the oil and the wine and the grain, the first-fruits of them which they give to the Lord, to you have I given them.

    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.

  • Neh 10:32-34
    3 verses
    77%

    32 And we made rules for ourselves, taxing ourselves a third of a shekel every year for the upkeep of the house of our God;

    33 For the holy bread, and for the regular meal offering and the regular burned offering on the Sabbaths and at the new moon and the fixed feasts, and for the sin-offerings to take away the sin of Israel, and for all the work of the house of our God.

    34 And we, the priests and the Levites and the people, made selection, by the decision of the Lord, of those who were to take the wood offering into the house of God, by families at the regular times, year by year, to be burned on the altar of the Lord our God, as it is recorded in the law;

  • Deut 18:4
    77%

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

  • Deut 12:6
    77%

    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;

  • Exod 23:16
    76%

    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 27:30
    76%

    30 And every tenth part of the land, of the seed planted, or of the fruit of trees, is holy to the Lord.

  • Ezek 44:30
    75%

    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.

  • Deut 14:22
    75%

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

  • Exod 22:29
    74%

    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.

  • Lev 19:24-25
    2 verses
    74%

    24 And in the fourth year all the fruit will be holy as a praise-offering to the Lord.

    25 But in the fifth year you may take the fruit and the increase of it for your food: I am the Lord your God.

  • Neh 13:12
    74%

    12 Then all Judah came with the tenth part of the grain and wine and oil and put it into the store-houses.

  • Num 18:29-30
    2 verses
    74%

    29 From everything given to you, let the best of it, the holy part of it, be offered as a lifted offering to the Lord.

    30 Say to them, then, When the best of it is lifted up on high, it is to be put to the account of the Levites as the increase of the grain-floor and of the place where the grapes are crushed.

  • Lev 23:17
    73%

    17 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.

  • Num 15:19-21
    3 verses
    73%

    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 34:22
    72%

    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.

  • Mal 3:10
    72%

    10 Let your tenths come into the store-house so that there may be food in my house, and put me to the test by doing so, says the Lord of armies, and see if I do not make the windows of heaven open and send down such a blessing on you that there is no room for it.

  • Lev 2:12
    72%

    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.

  • Deut 16:10
    72%

    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:

  • Neh 13:31
    71%

    31 And for the wood offering, at fixed times, and for the first fruits. Keep me in mind, O my God, for good.

  • Deut 14:28
    71%

    28 At the end of every three years take a tenth part of all your increase for that year, and put it in store inside your walls:

  • Num 18:27
    71%

    27 And this lifted offering is to be put to your credit as if it was grain from the grain-floor and wine from the vines.

  • Deut 1:25
    71%

    25 And taking in their hands some of the fruit of the land, they came down again to us, and gave us their account, saying, It is a good land which the Lord our God is giving us.

  • Gen 4:3
    71%

    3 And after a time, Cain gave to the Lord an offering of the fruits of the earth.

  • Lev 2:14
    71%

    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.

  • Amos 4:4
    71%

    4 Come to Beth-el and do evil; to Gilgal, increasing the number of your sins; come with your offerings every morning and your tenths every three days:

  • Exod 34:26
    71%

    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

  • Deut 12:11
    71%

    11 Then there will be a place marked out by the Lord your God as the resting-place for his name, and there you will take all the things which I give you orders to take: your burned offerings and other offerings, and the tenth part of your goods, and the offerings to be lifted up, and the offerings of your oaths which you make to the Lord;

  • Deut 15:20
    71%

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

  • Num 28:26
    71%

    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:

  • Num 15:3
    70%

    3 And are going to make an offering by fire to the Lord, a burned offering or an offering in connection with an oath, or an offering freely given, or at your regular feasts, an offering for a sweet smell to the Lord, from the herd or the flock:

  • Exod 13:11
    70%

    11 And 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,

  • Lev 27:32
    70%

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