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Lev 23:10 — Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come into the land which I give unto you, and shall reap the harvest thereof, then ye shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest unto the priest:

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

When		Lev 14:34
and shall		Lev 2:12-16; Exd 22:29; Exd 23:16,19; Exd 34:22,26; Num 15:2,18-21; Num 28:26; Deu 16:9; Jos 3:15
sheaf		or, handful. Heb. omer. the first fruits. This offering was a public acknowledgement of the bounty and goodness of God for the kindly fruits of the earth. From the practice of the people of God, the heathen borrowed a similar one, founded on the same reason. Pro 3:9,10; Eze 44:30; Rom 11:16; 1Cr 15:20-23; Jam 1:18; Rev 14:4

Correlating Passages

When

Lev 14:34

When ye be come into the land of Canaan, which I give to you for a possession, and I put the plague of leprosy in a house of the land of your possession;

and shall

	Lev 2:12	As for the oblation of the firstfruits, ye shall offer them unto the LORD: but they shall not be burnt on the altar for a sweet savour.
	Lev 2:13	And every oblation of thy meat offering shalt thou season with salt; neither shalt thou suffer the salt of the covenant of thy God to be lacking from thy meat offering: with all thine offerings thou shalt offer salt.
	Lev 2:14	And if thou offer a meat offering of thy firstfruits unto the LORD, thou shalt offer for the meat offering of thy firstfruits green ears of corn dried by the fire, [even] corn beaten out of full ears.
	Lev 2:15	And thou shalt put oil upon it, and lay frankincense thereon: it [is] a meat offering.
	Lev 2:16	And the priest shall burn the memorial of it, [part] of the beaten corn thereof, and [part] of the oil thereof, with all the frankincense thereof: [it is] an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
	Exd 22:29	Thou shalt not delay [to offer] the first of thy ripe fruits, and of thy liquors: the firstborn of thy sons shalt thou give unto me.
	Exd 23:16	And the feast of harvest, the firstfruits of thy labours, which thou hast sown in the field: and the feast of ingathering, [which is] in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labours out of the field.
	Exd 23:19	The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring into the house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.
	Exd 34:22	And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, of the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the year's end.
	Exd 34:26	The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring unto the house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.
	Num 15:2	Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come into the land of your habitations, which I give unto you,
	Num 15:18	Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land whither I bring you,
	Num 15:19	Then it shall be, that, when ye eat of the bread of the land, ye shall offer up an heave offering unto the LORD.
	Num 15:20	Ye shall offer up a cake of the first of your dough [for] an heave offering: as [ye do] the heave offering of the threshingfloor, so shall ye heave it.
	Num 15:21	Of the first of your dough ye shall give unto the LORD an heave offering in your generations.
	Num 28:26	Also in the day of the firstfruits, when ye bring a new meat offering unto the LORD, after your weeks [be out], ye shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work:
	Deu 16:9	Seven weeks shalt thou number unto thee: begin to number the seven weeks from [such time as] thou beginnest [to put] the sickle to the corn.
	Jos 3:15	And as they that bare the ark were come unto Jordan, and the feet of the priests that bare the ark were dipped in the brim of the water, (for Jordan overfloweth all his banks all the time of harvest,)

sheaf

	Pro 3:9	Honour the LORD with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase:
	Pro 3:10	So shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy presses shall burst out with new wine.
	Eze 44:30	And the first of all the firstfruits of all [things], and every oblation of all, of every [sort] of your oblations, shall be the priest's: ye shall also give unto the priest the first of your dough, that he may cause the blessing to rest in thine house.
	Rom 11:16	For if the firstfruit [be] holy, the lump [is] also [holy]: and if the root [be] holy, so [are] the branches.
	1Cr 15:20	But now is Christ risen from the dead, [and] become the firstfruits of them that slept.
	1Cr 15:21	For since by man [came] death, by man [came] also the resurrection of the dead.
	1Cr 15:22	For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.
	1Cr 15:23	But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ's at his coming.
	Jam 1:18	Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
	Rev 14:4	These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were redeemed from among men, [being] the firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb.

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Scott, Thomas. "Leviticus 23:10," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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