Treasury of Scripture
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Exodus 22:29 You shall not delay to offer the first of your ripe fruits, and of your liquors: the firstborn of your sons shall you give to me.
Exodus 34:26 The first of the first fruits of your land you shall bring to the house of the LORD your God...
Leviticus 23:10-17 Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, When you be come into the land which I give to you...
Numbers 18:12,13 All the best of the oil, and all the best of the wine, and of the wheat, the first fruits of them which they shall offer to the LORD...
Deuteronomy 12:5-7 But to the place which the LORD your God shall choose out of all your tribes to put his name there...
Deuteronomy 26:10 And now, behold, I have brought the first fruits of the land, which you, O LORD, have given me...
Nehemiah 10:35 And to bring the first fruits of our ground, and the first fruits of all fruit of all trees, year by year, to the house of the LORD:
1 Corinthians 15:20 But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the first fruits of them that slept.
Revelation 14:4 These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are they which follow the Lamb wherever he goes...
Thou shalt not seethe a kid. The true sense of this passage seems to be that assigned by Dr. Cudworth, from a MS. comment of a Karaite Jew. It was a custom with the ancient heathens, when they had gathered in all their fruits, to take a kid, and boil it in the dam's milk; and then in a magical way, to go about and sprinkle all their trees, and fields, and gardens, and orchards with it, thinking by these means, that they should make them fruitful, and bring forth more abundantly in the following year. Wherefore, God forbad his people, the Jews, at the time of their in-gathering, to use any such superstitious or idolatrous rite.
Exodus 34:26 The first of the first fruits of your land you shall bring to the house of the LORD your God...
Deuteronomy 14:21 You shall not eat of anything that dies of itself: you shall give it to the stranger that is in your gates, that he may eat it...
Proverbs 12:10 A righteous man regards the life of his beast: but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.
Jeremiah 10:3 For the customs of the people are vain: for one cuts a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the ax.
