Numbers 15:19-21
The oblation before prescribed seems to have been a general acknowledgment from the people at large; but this was an oblation from every one that reaped a harvest: who was required, previously to tasting it himself, to offer a portion of dough as a heave-offering to the Lord. This is supposed to have been given to the priests in their several cities, and not carried to the tabernacle.
cake <02471> [a cake.]
offering ...... raised offering <08641> [the heave-offering.]
Exodus 22:29
hold back <0309> [shalt not delay.]
[the first of they ripe fruits. Heb. they fulness. liquors.]
Heb. tear. the firstborn.
Exodus 23:19
first .... firstfruits <07225 01061> [first of the.]
cook ... young goat <01310 01423> [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 Kara‹te 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
first <07225> [first.]
cook <01310> [seethe.]
Leviticus 2:14
grain offering ............. grain offering <04503> [a meat offering.]
These first fruits seem to have been the voluntary oblation brought by individuals, of the finest ears of corn out of the field, before the harvest was ripe.
crushed bits <01643> [corn beaten.]
Leviticus 23:17
two ....... wave offering ....... two <08147 08573> [two wave.]
yeast <02557> [leaven.]
first fruits <01061> [the first-fruits.]
Leviticus 23:20
wave ......... bread <05130 03899> [wave them.]
Lord ..... holy .... Lord <06944 03068> [holy to.]
Deuteronomy 18:4
best .............. best <07225> [first-fruit.]
shear <01488> [the fleece.]
Deuteronomy 26:2
take <03947> [That thou shalt.]
go .... place <01980 04725> [go unto.]
Nehemiah 10:35-37
firstborn .......... firstborn <01060> [the first-born.]
priests <03548> [unto.]
first <07225> [the first-fruits.]
storerooms <03957> [to the chambers.]
tenth <04643> [and the tithes.]
