Exodus 23:19

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring into the house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

רֵאשִׁ֗ית בִּכּוּרֵי֙ אַדְמָ֣תְךָ֔ תָּבִ֕יא בֵּ֖ית יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֶ֑יךָ לֹֽא־תְבַשֵּׁ֥ל גְּדִ֖י בַּחֲלֵ֥ב אִמּֽוֹ׃

Transliteration

Rēʾšît bikkûrê ʾadmātĕkā tābîʾ bêt YHWH ʾĕlōheykā not-tĕbaššēl gĕdî in-ḥălēb ʾimmô

Grammar Details

• *rēʾšît*: noun feminine singular construct - first/best/beginning of
• *bikkûrê*: noun masculine plural construct - firstfruits of
• *ʾadmātĕkā*: noun feminine singular with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your ground/land
• *tābîʾ*: hiphil imperfect 2nd person masculine singular - bring/bring in
• *bêt*: noun masculine singular construct - house of
• *YHWH*: proper noun - the divine name
• *ʾĕlōheykā*: noun masculine plural with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your God
• *tĕbaššēl*: piel imperfect 2nd person masculine singular - boil/cook/seethe
• *gĕdî*: noun masculine singular - young goat/kid
• *ḥălēb*: noun masculine singular construct - milk of
• *ʾimmô*: noun feminine singular with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his mother

Word Meanings

• *rēʾšît bikkûrê*: first of the firstfruits/choicest of first produce
• *ʾadmātĕkā*: your ground/land/soil/earth
• *tābîʾ*: bring/bring in/cause to enter
• *tĕbaššēl*: boil/cook/seethe
• *gĕdî*: young goat/kid/young animal

Referenced Verses

• Exod 34:26 : 26 The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring unto the house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.
• Deut 14:21 : 21 Ye shall not eat of any thing that dieth of itself: thou shalt give it unto the stranger that is in thy gates, that he may eat it; or thou mayest sell it unto an alien: for thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.
• Deut 26:10 : 10 And now, behold, I have brought the firstfruits of the land, which thou, O LORD, hast given me. And thou shalt set it before the LORD thy God, and worship before the LORD thy God:
• Neh 10:35 : 35 And to bring the firstfruits of our ground, and the firstfruits of all fruit of all trees, year by year, unto the house of the LORD:
• Exod 22:29 : 29 Thou shalt not delay to offer the first of thy ripe fruits, and of thy liquors: the firstborn of thy sons shalt thou give unto me.
• Deut 26:2 : 2 That thou shalt take of the first of all the fruit of the earth, which thou shalt bring of thy land that the LORD thy God giveth thee, and shalt put it in a basket, and shalt go unto the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to place his name there.
• Num 18:12-13 : 12 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. 13 And whatsoever is first ripe in the land, which they shall bring unto the LORD, shall be thine; every one that is clean in thine house shall eat of it.
• Deut 12:5-7 : 5 But unto the place which the LORD your God shall choose out of all your tribes to put his name there, even unto his habitation shall ye seek, and thither thou shalt come: 6 And thither ye shall bring your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and heave offerings of your hand, and your vows, and your freewill offerings, and the firstlings of your herds and of your flocks: 7 And there ye shall eat before the LORD your God, and ye shall rejoice in all that ye put your hand unto, ye and your households, wherein the LORD thy God hath blessed thee.
• Lev 23:10-17 : 10 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come into the land which I give unto you, and shall reap the harvest thereof, then ye shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest unto the priest: 11 And he shall wave the sheaf before the LORD, to be accepted for you: on the morrow after the sabbath the priest shall wave it. 12 And ye shall offer that day when ye wave the sheaf an he lamb without blemish of the first year for a burnt offering unto the LORD. 13 And the meat offering thereof shall be two tenth deals of fine flour mingled with oil, an offering made by fire unto the LORD for a sweet savour: and the drink offering thereof shall be of wine, the fourth part of an hin. 14 And ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn, nor green ears, until the selfsame day that ye have brought an offering unto your God: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings. 15 And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the sabbath, from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven sabbaths shall be complete: 16 Even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall offer a new meat offering unto the LORD. 17 Ye shall bring out of your habitations two wave loaves of two tenth deals: they shall be of fine flour; they shall be baken with leaven; they are the firstfruits unto the LORD.
• Prov 12:10 : 10 A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast: but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.
• Jer 10:3 : 3 For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.
• 1 Cor 15:20 : 20 But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept.
• Rev 14:4 : 4 These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were redeemed from among men, being the firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb.