What does the Bible say about first fruits?

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• Proverbs 3:9-10

  [9] Honor Yahweh with your substance, With the first fruits of all your increase: [10] So your barns will be filled with plenty, And your vats will overflow with new wine.

• Nehemiah 10:35

  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;

• Proverbs 3:9

  Honor Yahweh with your substance, With the first fruits of all your increase:

• Ezekiel 44:30

  The first of all the first fruits of every thing, and every offering of everything, of all your offerings, shall be for the priest: you shall also give to the priests the first of your dough, to cause a blessing to rest on your house.

• 1 Corinthians 15:20

  But now Christ has been raised from the dead. He became the first fruits of those who are asleep.

• Romans 11:16

  If the first fruit is holy, so is the lump. If the root is holy, so are the branches.

• James 1:18

  Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.

• Leviticus 23:10-14

  [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.

• Exodus 22:29

  "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.

• Romans 8:23

  Not only so, but ourselves also, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for adoption, the redemption of our body.

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