Ezekiel 44:30

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

The first of all the first fruits and all contributions of any kind will be for the priests; you will also give to the priest the first portion of your dough, so that a blessing may rest on your house.

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  • Neh 10:35-37 : 35 We also accept responsibility for bringing the first fruits of our land and the first fruits of every fruit tree year by year to the temple of the LORD. 36 We also accept responsibility, as is written in the law, for bringing the firstborn of our sons and our cattle and the firstborn of our herds and of our flocks to the temple of our God, to the priests who are ministering in the temple of our God. 37 We will also bring the first of our coarse meal, of our contributions, of the fruit of every tree, of new wine, and of olive oil to the priests at the storerooms of the temple of our God, along with a tenth of the produce of our land to the Levites, for the Levites are the ones who collect the tithes in all the cities where we work.
  • 2 Chr 31:4-6 : 4 He ordered the people living in Jerusalem to contribute the portion prescribed for the priests and Levites so they might be obedient to the law of the LORD. 5 When the edict was issued, the Israelites freely contributed the initial portion of their grain, wine, olive oil, honey, and all the produce of their fields. They brought a tenth of everything, which added up to a huge amount. 6 The Israelites and people of Judah who lived in the cities of Judah also contributed a tenth of their cattle and sheep, as well as a tenth of the holy items consecrated to the LORD their God. They brought them and placed them in many heaps.
  • 2 Chr 31:10 : 10 Azariah, the head priest from the family of Zadok, said to him,“Since the contributions began arriving in the LORD’s temple, we have had plenty to eat and have a large quantity left over. For the LORD has blessed his people, and this large amount remains.”
  • Exod 23:19 : 19 The first of the firstfruits of your soil you must bring to the house of the LORD your God.“You must not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.
  • Num 15:19-21 : 19 and you eat some of the food of the land, you must offer up a raised offering to the LORD. 20 You must offer up a cake of the first of your finely ground flour as a raised offering; as you offer the raised offering of the threshing floor, so you must offer it up. 21 You must give to the LORD some of the first of your finely ground flour as a raised offering in your future generations.
  • Num 18:12-18 : 12 “All the best of the olive oil and all the best of the wine and of the wheat, the first fruits of these things that they give to the LORD, I have given to you. 13 And whatever first ripe fruit in their land they bring to the LORD will be yours; everyone who is ceremonially clean in your household may eat of it. 14 “Everything devoted in Israel will be yours. 15 The firstborn of every womb which they present to the LORD, whether human or animal, will be yours. Nevertheless, the firstborn sons you must redeem, and the firstborn males of unclean animals you must redeem. 16 And those that must be redeemed you are to redeem when they are a month old, according to your estimation, for five shekels of silver according to the sanctuary shekel(which is twenty gerahs). 17 But you must not redeem the firstborn of a cow or a sheep or a goat; they are holy. You must splash their blood on the altar and burn their fat for an offering made by fire for a pleasing aroma to the LORD. 18 And their meat will be yours, just as the breast and the right hip of the raised offering is yours.
  • Num 18:27-30 : 27 And your raised offering will be credited to you as though it were grain from the threshing floor or as new wine from the winepress. 28 Thus you are to offer up a raised offering to the LORD of all your tithes which you receive from the Israelites; and you must give the LORD’s raised offering from it to Aaron the priest. 29 From all your gifts you must offer up every raised offering due the LORD, from all the best of it, and the holiest part of it.’ 30 “Therefore you will say to them,‘When you offer up the best of it, then it will be credited to the Levites as the product of the threshing floor and as the product of the winepress.
  • Deut 18:4 : 4 You must give them the best of your grain, new wine, and olive oil, as well as the best of your wool when you shear your flocks.
  • Deut 26:10-15 : 10 So now, look! I have brought the first of the ground’s produce that you, LORD, have given me.” Then you must set it down before the LORD your God and worship before him. 11 You will celebrate all the good things that the LORD your God has given you and your family, along with the Levites and the resident foreigners among you. 12 Presentation of the Third-year Tithe When you finish tithing all your income in the third year(the year of tithing), you must give it to the Levites, the resident foreigners, the orphans, and the widows so that they may eat to their satisfaction in your villages. 13 Then you shall say before the LORD your God,“I have removed the sacred offering from my house and given it to the Levites, the resident foreigners, the orphans, and the widows just as you have commanded me. I have not violated or forgotten your commandments. 14 I have not eaten anything when I was in mourning, or removed any of it while ceremonially unclean, or offered any of it to the dead; I have obeyed you and have done everything you have commanded me. 15 Look down from your holy dwelling place in heaven and bless your people Israel and the land you have given us, just as you promised our ancestors– a land flowing with milk and honey.”
  • Num 3:13 : 13 because all the firstborn are mine. When I destroyed all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, I set apart for myself all the firstborn in Israel, both man and beast. They belong to me. I am the LORD.”
  • Exod 13:2 : 2 “Set apart to me every firstborn male– the first offspring of every womb among the Israelites, whether human or animal; it is mine.”
  • Exod 13:12 : 12 then you must give over to the LORD the first offspring of every womb. Every firstling of a beast that you have– the males will be the LORD’s.
  • Exod 22:29 : 29 “Do not hold back offerings from your granaries or your vats. You must give me the firstborn of your sons.
  • Prov 3:9-9 : 9 Honor the LORD from your wealth and from the first fruits of all your crops; 10 then your barns will be filled completely, and your vats will overflow with new wine.
  • Jas 1:18 : 18 By his sovereign plan he gave us birth through the message of truth, that we would be a kind of firstfruits of all he created.
  • Mal 3:10-11 : 10 “Bring the entire tithe into the storehouse so that there may be food in my temple. Test me in this matter,” says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies,“to see if I will not open for you the windows of heaven and pour out blessing for you until there is no room for it all. 11 Then I will stop the plague from ruining your crops, and the vine will not lose its fruit before harvest,” says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies.

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  • Num 15:19-21
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    19and you eat some of the food of the land, you must offer up a raised offering to the LORD.

    20You must offer up a cake of the first of your finely ground flour as a raised offering; as you offer the raised offering of the threshing floor, so you must offer it up.

    21You must give to the LORD some of the first of your finely ground flour as a raised offering in your future generations.

  • Deut 18:3-4
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    3This shall be the priests’ fair allotment from the people who offer sacrifices, whether bull or sheep– they must give to the priest the shoulder, the jowls, and the stomach.

    4You must give them the best of your grain, new wine, and olive oil, as well as the best of your wool when you shear your flocks.

  • Num 18:11-15
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    11“And this is yours: the raised offering of their gift, along with all the wave offerings of the Israelites. I have given them to you and to your sons and daughters with you as a perpetual ordinance. Everyone who is ceremonially clean in your household may eat of it.

    12“All the best of the olive oil and all the best of the wine and of the wheat, the first fruits of these things that they give to the LORD, I have given to you.

    13And whatever first ripe fruit in their land they bring to the LORD will be yours; everyone who is ceremonially clean in your household may eat of it.

    14“Everything devoted in Israel will be yours.

    15The firstborn of every womb which they present to the LORD, whether human or animal, will be yours. Nevertheless, the firstborn sons you must redeem, and the firstborn males of unclean animals you must redeem.

  • Ezek 44:29
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    29They may eat the grain offering, the sin offering, and the guilt offering, and every devoted thing in Israel will be theirs.

  • Num 18:27-31
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    27And your raised offering will be credited to you as though it were grain from the threshing floor or as new wine from the winepress.

    28Thus you are to offer up a raised offering to the LORD of all your tithes which you receive from the Israelites; and you must give the LORD’s raised offering from it to Aaron the priest.

    29From all your gifts you must offer up every raised offering due the LORD, from all the best of it, and the holiest part of it.’

    30“Therefore you will say to them,‘When you offer up the best of it, then it will be credited to the Levites as the product of the threshing floor and as the product of the winepress.

    31And you may eat it in any place, you and your household, because it is your wages for your service in the tent of meeting.

  • Lev 23:10
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    10“Speak to the Israelites and tell them,‘When you enter the land that I am about to give to you and you gather in its harvest, then you must bring the sheaf of the first portion of your harvest to the priest,

  • Num 5:9-10
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    9Every offering of all the Israelites’ holy things that they bring to the priest will be his.

    10Every man’s holy things will be his; whatever any man gives the priest will be his.’”

  • Neh 10:35-37
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    35We also accept responsibility for bringing the first fruits of our land and the first fruits of every fruit tree year by year to the temple of the LORD.

    36We also accept responsibility, as is written in the law, for bringing the firstborn of our sons and our cattle and the firstborn of our herds and of our flocks to the temple of our God, to the priests who are ministering in the temple of our God.

    37We will also bring the first of our coarse meal, of our contributions, of the fruit of every tree, of new wine, and of olive oil to the priests at the storerooms of the temple of our God, along with a tenth of the produce of our land to the Levites, for the Levites are the ones who collect the tithes in all the cities where we work.

  • Exod 22:29
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    29“Do not hold back offerings from your granaries or your vats. You must give me the firstborn of your sons.

  • Lev 7:9
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    9Every grain offering which is baked in the oven or made in the pan or on the griddle belongs to the priest who presented it.

  • Prov 3:9
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    9Honor the LORD from your wealth and from the first fruits of all your crops;

  • Lev 23:17
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    17From the places where you live you must bring two loaves of bread for a wave offering; they must be made from two tenths of an ephah of fine wheat flour, baked with yeast, as first fruits to the LORD.

  • Lev 2:12
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    12You can present them to the LORD as an offering of first fruit, but they must not go up to the altar for a soothing aroma.

  • Lev 23:20
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    20and the priest is to wave them– the two lambs– along with the bread of the first fruits, as a wave offering before the LORD; they will be holy to the LORD for the priest.

  • Deut 26:10
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    10So now, look! I have brought the first of the ground’s produce that you, LORD, have given me.” Then you must set it down before the LORD your God and worship before him.

  • Ezek 44:31
    73%

    31The priests will not eat any bird or animal that has died a natural death or was torn to pieces by a wild animal.

  • Ezek 48:14
    72%

    14They must not sell or exchange any of it; they must not transfer this choice portion of land, for it is set apart to the LORD.

  • Lev 2:14
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    14“‘If you present a grain offering of first ripe grain to the LORD, you must present your grain offering of first ripe grain as soft kernels roasted in fire– crushed bits of fresh grain.

  • Lev 7:14
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    14He must present one of each kind of grain offering as a contribution offering to the LORD; it belongs to the priest who splashes the blood of the peace offering.

  • Num 18:9
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    9Of all the most holy offerings reserved from the fire this will be yours: Every offering of theirs, whether from every grain offering or from every purification offering or from every reparation offering which they bring to me, will be most holy for you and for your sons.

  • Deut 26:2
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    2you must take the first of all the ground’s produce you harvest from the land the LORD your God is giving you, place it in a basket, and go to the place where he chooses to locate his name.

  • Lev 2:8
    71%

    8“‘You must bring the grain offering that must be made from these to the LORD. Present it to the priest, and he will bring it to the altar.

  • Deut 12:6
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    6And there you must take your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the personal offerings you have prepared, your votive offerings, your freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks.

  • Exod 13:12
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    12then you must give over to the LORD the first offspring of every womb. Every firstling of a beast that you have– the males will be the LORD’s.

  • Deut 15:19
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    19Giving 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.

  • 2 Chr 31:5
    71%

    5When the edict was issued, the Israelites freely contributed the initial portion of their grain, wine, olive oil, honey, and all the produce of their fields. They brought a tenth of everything, which added up to a huge amount.

  • Lev 23:14
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    14You must not eat bread, roasted grain, or fresh grain until this very day, until you bring the offering of your God. This is a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all the places where you live.

  • Exod 34:26
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    26“The first of the firstfruits of your soil you must bring to the house of the LORD your God.You must not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.”

  • Lev 21:8
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    8You must sanctify him because he presents the food of your God. He must be holy to you because I, the LORD who sanctifies you all, am holy.

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    24You are to put all these in Aaron’s hands and in his sons’ hands, and you are to wave them as a wave offering before the LORD.

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  • Lev 7:6
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    6Any male among the priests may eat it. It must be eaten in a holy place. It is most holy.

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    29Any male among the priests may eat it. It is most holy.

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    2and bread made without yeast, and perforated cakes without yeast mixed with oil, and wafers without yeast spread with oil– you are to make them using fine wheat flour.

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    16All the people of the land will contribute to this offering for the prince of Israel.

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    29You are to take it from their half-share and give it to Eleazar the priest for a raised offering to the LORD.