Exodus 22:29

World English Bible (2000)

"You shall not delay to offer from your harvest and from the outflow of your presses. "You shall give the firstborn of your sons to me.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כֵּֽן־תַּעֲשֶׂ֥ה לְשֹׁרְךָ֖ לְצֹאנֶ֑ךָ שִׁבְעַ֤ת יָמִים֙ יִהְיֶ֣ה עִם־אִמּ֔וֹ בַּיּ֥וֹם הַשְּׁמִינִ֖י תִּתְּנוֹ־לִֽי׃

Transliteration

Thus taʿăśeh to your šōrĕkā, to your ṣōʾnekā; šibʿat yāmîm it shall be with its ʾimmô, on the day the šĕmînî you shall give it to me.

Grammar Details

• *taʿăśeh*: qal imperfect, 2nd masculine singular, 'you shall do'
• *šōrĕkā*: masculine singular noun with 2nd masculine singular suffix, 'your ox'
• *ṣōʾnekā*: masculine singular collective noun with 2nd masculine singular suffix, 'your flock'
• *šibʿat*: feminine singular construct, 'seven of'
• *yāmîm*: masculine plural noun, 'days'
• *ʾimmô*: feminine singular noun with 3rd masculine singular suffix, 'its mother'
• *šĕmînî*: definite masculine singular ordinal number, 'eighth'

Word Meanings

• *šōrĕkā*: your ox/your cattle
• *ṣōʾnekā*: your flock/your sheep and goats

Referenced Verses

• Exod 13:2 : 2 "Sanctify to me all of the firstborn, whatever opens the womb among the children of Israel, both of man and of animal. It is mine."
• Exod 23:16 : 16 And the feast of harvest, the first fruits of your labors, which you sow in the field: and the feast of harvest, at the end of the year, when you gather in your labors out of the field.
• Exod 23:19 : 19 The first of the first fruits of your ground you shall bring into the house of Yahweh your God. "You shall not boil a young goat in its mother's milk.
• Exod 13:12 : 12 that you shall set apart to Yahweh all that opens the womb, and every firstborn which you have that comes from an animal. The males shall be Yahweh's.
• Deut 26:2-9 : 2 that you shall take of the first of all the fruit of the ground, which you shall bring in from your land that Yahweh your God gives you; and you shall put it in a basket, and shall go to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there. 3 You shall come to the priest who shall be in those days, and tell him, "I profess this day to Yahweh your God, that I am come to the land which Yahweh swore to our fathers to give us." 4 The priest shall take the basket out of your hand, and set it down before the altar of Yahweh your God. 5 You shall answer and say before Yahweh your God, "A Syrian ready to perish was my father; and he went down into Egypt, and lived there, few in number; and he became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous. 6 The Egyptians dealt ill with us, and afflicted us, and laid on us hard bondage: 7 and we cried to Yahweh, the God of our fathers, and Yahweh heard our voice, and saw our affliction, and our toil, and our oppression; 8 and Yahweh brought us forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand, and with an outstretched arm, and with great terror, and with signs, and with wonders; 9 and he has brought us into this place, and has given us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey. 10 Now, behold, I have brought the first of the fruit of the ground, which you, Yahweh, have given me." You shall set it down before Yahweh your God, and worship before Yahweh your God.
• 2 Kgs 4:42 : 42 A man from Baal Shalishah came, and brought the man of God bread of the first fruits, twenty loaves of barley, and fresh ears of grain in his sack. He said, "Give to the people, that they may eat."
• 2 Chr 31:5 : 5 As soon as the commandment came abroad, the children of Israel gave in abundance the first fruits of grain, new wine, and oil, and honey, and of all the increase of the field; and the tithe of all things brought they in abundantly.
• Prov 3:9-9 : 9 Honor Yahweh with your substance, with the first fruits of all your increase: 10 so your barns will be filled with plenty, and your vats will overflow with new wine.
• Ezek 20:40 : 40 For in my holy mountain, in the mountain of the height of Israel, says the Lord Yahweh, there shall all the house of Israel, all of them, serve me in the land: there will I accept them, and there will I require your offerings, and the first fruits of your offerings, with all your holy things.
• Mic 7:1 : 1 Misery is mine! Indeed, I am like one who gathers the summer fruits, as gleanings of the vineyard: There is no cluster of grapes to eat. My soul desires to eat the early fig.
• Matt 6:33 : 33 But seek first God's Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.
• Rom 8:23 : 23 Not only so, but ourselves also, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for adoption, the redemption of our body.
• Jas 1:18 : 18 Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.
• Exod 34:19 : 19 "All that opens the womb is mine; and all your livestock that is male, the firstborn of cow and sheep.