Numbers 15:19-21

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[19] then it shall be that when you eat of the bread of the land, you shall offer up a heave-offering to Yahweh. [20] Of the first of your dough you shall offer up a cake for a heave-offering: as the heave-offering of the threshing floor, so shall you heave it. [21] Of the first of your dough you shall give to Yahweh a heave-offering throughout your generations.

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The Exodus RouteThe route of the Israelites out of Egypt through the Sinai wilderness toward Canaan.

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Egypt was the land of Israel’s slavery, from which the Lord delivered them before bringing them toward Canaan. In this passage, the contrast highlights that the firstfruits offering belongs to their new settled life in the land God was giving them, not to their former bondage.

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Numbers 15:19-21 mentions Egypt.

Photo of Egypt — Egypt · Ricardo Liberato