Exodus 23:19

Webster's Bible (1833)

The first of the first fruits of your ground you shall bring into the house of Yahweh your God. "You shall not boil a kid in its 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 You shall bring the first of the first fruits of your ground to the house of Yahweh your God. You shall not boil a young goat in its mother's milk."
• Deut 14:21 : 21 You shall not eat of anything that dies of itself: you may give it to the foreigner living among you who is within your gates, that he may eat it; or you may sell it to a foreigner: for you are a holy people to Yahweh your God. You shall not boil a kid in its mother's milk.
• Deut 26:10 : 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:
• Neh 10:35 : 35 and to bring the first fruits of our ground, and the first fruits of all fruit of all manner of trees, year by year, to the house of Yahweh;
• Exod 22:29 : 29 "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.
• Deut 26:2 : 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.
• Num 18:12-13 : 12 All the best of the oil, and all the best of the vintage, and of the grain, the first fruits of them which they give to Yahweh, to you have I given them. 13 The first-ripe fruits of all that is in their land, which they bring to Yahweh, shall be yours; everyone who is clean in your house shall eat of it.
• Deut 12:5-7 : 5 But to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose out of all your tribes, to put his name there, even to his habitation shall you seek, and there you shall come; 6 and there you shall bring your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and the heave-offering of your hand, and your vows, and your freewill-offerings, and the firstborn of your herd and of your flock: 7 and there you shall eat before Yahweh your God, and you shall rejoice in all that you put your hand to, you and your households, in which Yahweh your God has blessed you.
• Lev 23:10-17 : 10 "Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, 'When you have come into the land which I give to you, and shall reap its the harvest, then you shall bring the sheaf of the first fruits of your harvest to the priest: 11 and he shall wave the sheaf before Yahweh, to be accepted for you. On the next day after the Sabbath the priest shall wave it. 12 On the day when you wave the sheaf, you shall offer a male lamb without blemish a year old for a burnt offering to Yahweh. 13 The meal offering with it shall be two tenth parts of an ephah of fine flour mingled with oil, an offering made by fire to Yahweh for a sweet savor; and the drink offering with it shall be of wine, the fourth part of a hin. 14 You shall eat neither bread, nor roasted grain, nor fresh grain, until this same day, until you have brought the offering of your God. This is a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings. 15 "'You shall count from the next day after the Sabbath, from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven Sabbaths shall be completed: 16 even to the next day after the seventh Sabbath you shall number fifty days; and you shall offer a new meal offering to Yahweh. 17 You shall bring out of your habitations two wave-loaves of two tenth parts of an ephah: they shall be of fine flour, they shall be baked with yeast, for first fruits to Yahweh.
• Prov 12:10 : 10 A righteous man regards the life of his animal, But the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.
• Jer 10:3 : 3 For the customs of the peoples are vanity; for one cuts a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman with the axe.
• 1 Cor 15:20 : 20 But now Christ has been raised from the dead. He became the first fruits of those who are asleep.
• Rev 14:4 : 4 These are those who were not defiled with women, for they are virgins. These are those who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. These were redeemed by Jesus from among men, the first fruits to God and to the Lamb.