Deuteronomy 15:19

KJV1611 – Modern English

All the firstborn males that come of your herd and of your flock you shall sanctify to the LORD your God: you shall do no work with the firstborn of your bull, nor shear the firstborn of your sheep.

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  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    Consecrate every firstborn male of your herd and flock to the Lord your God. Do not work the firstborn of your oxen or shear the firstborn of your sheep.

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    All the firstling males that come of thy herd and of thy flock thou shalt sanctify unto the LORD thy God: thou shalt do no work with the firstling of thy bullock, nor shear the firstling of thy sheep.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    All the firstling{H1060} males{H2145} that are born{H3205} of thy herd{H1241} and of thy flock{H6629} thou shalt sanctify{H6942} unto Jehovah{H3068} thy God:{H430} thou shalt do no work{H5647} with the firstling{H1060} of thy herd,{H7794} nor shear{H1494} the firstling{H1060} of thy flock.{H6629}

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    All the firstling{H1060} males{H2145} that come{H3205}{(H8735)} of thy herd{H1241} and of thy flock{H6629} thou shalt sanctify{H6942}{(H8686)} unto the LORD{H3068} thy God{H430}: thou shalt do no work{H5647}{(H8799)} with the firstling{H1060} of thy bullock{H7794}, nor shear{H1494}{(H8799)} the firstling{H1060} of thy sheep{H6629}.

  • Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

    All the firstborne that come of thine oxen and of thi shepe that are males, thou shalt halowe vnto the Lorde thi God. Thou shalt do no seruyce with the firstborne of thi shepe:

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    All the first borne that come of thine oxen and shepe, yt are males, shalt thou halowe vnto the LORDE thy God. Thou shalt not plowe with the firstborne of thine oxe, and shalt not clyppe the firstborne of thy shepe:

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    All the first borne males that come of thy cattell, and of thy sheepe, thou shalt sanctifie vnto the Lord thy God. Thou shalt do no worke with thy first borne bullocke, nor sheare thy first borne sheepe.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    All the first males that come of thy cattell and of thy sheepe, thou shalt halowe vnto the Lorde thy God: Thou shalt do no worke with the first borne bullocke, nor sheare the first gendred of thy sheepe.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    ¶ All the firstling males that come of thy herd and of thy flock thou shalt sanctify unto the LORD thy God: thou shalt do no work with the firstling of thy bullock, nor shear the firstling of thy sheep.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    All the firstborn males that are born of your herd and of your flock you shall sanctify to Yahweh your God: you shall do no work with the firstborn of your herd, nor shear the firstborn of your flock.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    `Every firstling that is born in thy herd and in thy flock -- the male thou dost sanctify to Jehovah thy God; thou dost not work with the firstling of thine ox, nor shear the firstling of thy flock;

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    All the firstling males that are born of thy herd and of thy flock thou shalt sanctify unto Jehovah thy God: thou shalt do no work with the firstling of thy herd, nor shear the firstling of thy flock.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    All the firstling males that are born of thy herd and of thy flock thou shalt sanctify unto Jehovah thy God: thou shalt do no work with the firstling of thy herd, nor shear the firstling of thy flock.

  • 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.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    All the firstborn males that are born of your herd and of your flock you shall sanctify to Yahweh your God: you shall do no work with the firstborn of your herd, nor shear the firstborn of your flock.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    Giving God the Best You must set apart for the LORD your God every firstborn male born to your herds and flocks. You must not work the firstborn of your bulls or shear the firstborn of your flocks.

Referenced Verses

  • Exod 13:2 : 2 Sanctify to me all the firstborn, whatever opens the womb among the children of Israel, both of man and of beast: it is mine.
  • Exod 13:12 : 12 That you shall set apart to the LORD all that opens the womb, and every firstling that comes of a beast which you have; the males shall be the LORD'S.
  • Lev 27:26 : 26 Only the firstling of the beasts, which should be the LORD'S firstling, no man shall sanctify it; whether it be ox, or sheep: it is the LORD'S.
  • Num 18:15 : 15 Everything that opens the womb in all flesh, which they bring to the LORD, whether it be of men or beasts, shall be yours: nevertheless the firstborn of man you shall surely redeem, and the firstling of unclean beasts you shall redeem.
  • Num 18:17 : 17 But the firstling of a cow, or the firstling of a sheep, or the firstling of a goat, you shall not redeem; they are holy: you shall sprinkle their blood upon the altar, and shall burn their fat for an offering made by fire, for a sweet aroma to the LORD.
  • Deut 12:17 : 17 You may not eat within your gates the tithe of your grain, or of your new wine, or of your oil, or the firstborn of your herd or flock, nor any of your vows which you vow, nor your voluntary offerings, or heave offering of your hand:
  • Deut 16:14 : 14 And you shall rejoice in your feast, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your manservant, and your maidservant, and the Levite, the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are within your gates.
  • Rom 8:29 : 29 For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren.
  • Heb 12:23 : 23 To the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are registered in heaven, to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of righteous men made perfect,
  • Deut 14:23 : 23 And you shall eat before the LORD your God, in the place which He shall choose to place His name there, the tithe of your grain, of your wine, and of your oil, and the firstlings of your herds and of your flocks; that you may learn to fear the LORD your God always.
  • Deut 16:11 : 11 And you shall rejoice before the LORD your God, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your manservant, and your maidservant, and the Levite that is within your gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are among you, in the place which the LORD your God has chosen to place His name there.
  • Deut 12:5-7 : 5 But you shall seek the place which the LORD your God shall choose out of all your tribes to put His name there, to His habitation you shall come: 6 And there you shall bring your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the contributions of your hand, your vows, your freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks: 7 And there you shall eat before the LORD your God, and rejoice in all to which you put your hand, you and your households, in which the LORD your God has blessed you.
  • Num 3:13 : 13 Because all the firstborn are mine; for on the day that I struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, I hallowed unto me all the firstborn in Israel, both of man and beast: they shall be mine: I am the LORD.
  • Exod 34:19 : 19 All that open the womb is mine, and every firstborn among your livestock, whether ox or sheep, that is male.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Lev 27:26
    82%

    26 Only the firstling of the beasts, which should be the LORD'S firstling, no man shall sanctify it; whether it be ox, or sheep: it is the LORD'S.

  • Exod 13:11-13
    3 verses
    82%

    11 And it shall be when the LORD brings you into the land of the Canaanites, as he swore to you and to your fathers, and shall give it to you,

    12 That you shall set apart to the LORD all that opens the womb, and every firstling that comes of a beast which you have; the males shall be the LORD'S.

    13 And every firstling of a donkey you shall redeem with a lamb; and if you will not redeem it, then you shall break its neck: and all the firstborn of man among your children you shall redeem.

  • Exod 34:19-20
    2 verses
    81%

    19 All that open the womb is mine, and every firstborn among your livestock, whether ox or sheep, that is male.

    20 But the firstborn of a donkey you shall redeem with a lamb, and if you do not redeem him, then you shall break his neck. All the firstborn of your sons you shall redeem. And none shall appear before me empty-handed.

  • Deut 18:4
    80%

    4 The firstfruits of your grain, of your wine, and of your oil, and the first of the fleece of your sheep, you shall give him.

  • Num 18:17
    80%

    17 But the firstling of a cow, or the firstling of a sheep, or the firstling of a goat, you shall not redeem; they are holy: you shall sprinkle their blood upon the altar, and shall burn their fat for an offering made by fire, for a sweet aroma to the LORD.

  • Num 18:13-15
    3 verses
    79%

    13 And whatever is first ripe in the land, which they shall bring to the LORD, shall be yours; everyone who is clean in your house shall eat of it.

    14 Everything devoted in Israel shall be yours.

    15 Everything that opens the womb in all flesh, which they bring to the LORD, whether it be of men or beasts, shall be yours: nevertheless the firstborn of man you shall surely redeem, and the firstling of unclean beasts you shall redeem.

  • Exod 23:19
    79%

    19 The first of the firstfruits of your land you shall bring into the house of the LORD your God. You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.

  • Exod 22:29-30
    2 verses
    79%

    29 You shall not delay to offer the first of your ripe produce and your juices. The firstborn of your sons you shall give to me.

    30 Likewise you shall do with your oxen and your sheep. It shall be with its mother seven days; on the eighth day you shall give it to me.

  • Exod 34:26
    78%

    26 The first of the firstfruits of your land you shall bring to the house of the LORD your God. You shall not boil a young goat in its mother's milk.

  • Deut 15:20-21
    2 verses
    77%

    20 You shall eat it before the LORD your God year by year in the place which the LORD shall choose, you and your household.

    21 And if there is any blemish in it, such as if it is lame, or blind, or has any bad blemish, you shall not sacrifice it to the LORD your God.

  • Exod 13:1-2
    2 verses
    76%

    1 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

    2 Sanctify to me all the firstborn, whatever opens the womb among the children of Israel, both of man and of beast: it is mine.

  • Num 28:18-19
    2 verses
    76%

    18 On the first day shall be a holy assembly; you shall do no servile work therein:

    19 But you shall offer a sacrifice made by fire for a burnt offering to the LORD; two young bulls, and one ram, and seven lambs of the first year: they shall be to you without blemish:

  • Deut 17:1
    76%

    1 You shall not sacrifice to the LORD your God any bull or sheep that has a blemish or any defect, for that is an abomination to the LORD your God.

  • Lev 22:19
    75%

    19 You shall offer at your own will a male without blemish, of the cattle, of the sheep, or of the goats.

  • Exod 12:5
    74%

    5 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: you shall take it from the sheep, or from the goats:

  • Deut 12:17
    74%

    17 You may not eat within your gates the tithe of your grain, or of your new wine, or of your oil, or the firstborn of your herd or flock, nor any of your vows which you vow, nor your voluntary offerings, or heave offering of your hand:

  • Deut 12:6
    74%

    6 And there you shall bring your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the contributions of your hand, your vows, your freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks:

  • Deut 15:14
    74%

    14 You shall furnish him liberally out of your flock, out of your threshing floor, and out of your winepress: of that with which the LORD your God has blessed you, you shall give to him.

  • Lev 19:19
    74%

    19 You shall keep my statutes. You shall not let your livestock breed with another kind; you shall not sow your field with mixed seed; nor shall a garment mixed of linen and wool come upon you.

  • Neh 10:36
    73%

    36 Also the firstborn of our sons and of our cattle, as it is written in the law, and the firstlings of our herds and of our flocks, to bring to the house of our God, to the priests who minister in the house of our God:

  • Deut 14:21-22
    2 verses
    73%

    21 You shall not eat of anything that dies of itself: you shall give it to the stranger that is within your gates, that he may eat it; or you may sell it to an alien: for you are a holy people to the LORD your God. You shall not boil a young goat in its mother's milk.

    22 You shall truly tithe all the increase of your seed, that the field brings forth year by year.

  • Lev 27:32
    73%

    32 And concerning the tithe of the herd, or of the flock, even of whatever passes under the rod, the tenth shall be holy to the LORD.

  • Exod 13:15
    73%

    15 And it came to pass, when Pharaoh would hardly let us go, that the LORD slew all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both the firstborn of man, and the firstborn of beast: therefore I sacrifice to the LORD all that opens the womb, being males; but all the firstborn of my children I redeem.

  • Num 15:11
    73%

    11 Thus shall it be done for one bull, or for one ram, or for a lamb or a goat.

  • Lev 1:2
    73%

    2 Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, If any one of you brings an offering to the LORD, you shall bring your offering of the cattle, either of the herd or of the flock.

  • Num 8:17
    73%

    17 For all the firstborn of the children of Israel are mine, both man and beast: on the day I struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, I sanctified them to myself.

  • Deut 5:14
    72%

    14 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD your God: in it you shall not do any work, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your ox, nor your donkey, nor any of your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates; that your male servant and your female servant may rest as well as you.

  • Num 28:26
    72%

    26 Also on the day of the firstfruits, when you bring a new grain offering to the LORD, after your weeks are completed, you shall have a holy assembly; you shall do no servile work:

  • Lev 22:27-28
    2 verses
    72%

    27 When a bullock, or a sheep, or a goat, is born, then it shall be seven days under its mother; and from the eighth day onward it shall be accepted for an offering made by fire unto the LORD.

    28 And whether it be cow or ewe, you shall not kill it and her young both in one day.

  • Exod 29:1
    72%

    1 And this is what you shall do to them to consecrate them, to minister to me in the priest's office: Take one young bull, and two rams without blemish,

  • Num 29:26
    72%

    26 And on the fifth day nine bulls, two rams, and fourteen lambs of the first year without blemish:

  • Num 29:13
    72%

    13 And you shall offer a burnt offering, a sacrifice made by fire, of a pleasing aroma to the LORD; thirteen young bulls, two rams, and fourteen lambs of the first year; they shall be without blemish:

  • Num 3:41
    72%

    41 And you shall take the Levites for me (I am the LORD) instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites instead of all the firstborn cattle among the children of Israel.

  • Num 29:36
    72%

    36 But you shall offer a burnt offering, a sacrifice made by fire, of a pleasing aroma to the LORD: one bull, one ram, seven lambs of the first year without blemish:

  • Lev 23:10
    72%

    10 Speak to the children of Israel and say to them, When you come into the land which I give you and shall reap its harvest, then you shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest to the priest.

  • Num 29:20
    71%

    20 And on the third day eleven bulls, two rams, fourteen lambs of the first year without blemish;

  • Ps 50:9
    71%

    9 I will take no bull from your house, nor goats from your folds.

  • Num 29:29
    71%

    29 And on the sixth day eight bulls, two rams, and fourteen lambs of the first year without blemish:

  • Exod 23:16
    71%

    16 and the Feast of Harvest, the firstfruits of your labors which you have sown in the field; and the Feast of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you have gathered in your labors from the field.