16 You shall keep the eFeast of Harvest, of the firstfruits of your labor, of what you sow in the field. You shall keep the fFeast of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather in from the field the fruit of your labor. 17 gThree times in the year shall all your males appear before the Lord God.
18 h“You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with anything leavened, or let the fat of my feast remain until the morning.
19 i“The best of the firstfruits of your ground you shall bring into the house of the Lord your God.
j“You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.
The Feast of Firstfruits
9 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 10 “Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, When you come into the land that I give you and reap its harvest, you shall bring the sheaf of the xfirstfruits of your harvest to the priest, 11 and he shall wave the sheaf before the Lord, so that you may be accepted. On the day after the Sabbath the priest shall wave it. 12 And on the day when you wave the sheaf, you shall offer a male lamb a year old without blemish as a burnt offering to the Lord. 13 And the grain offering with it shall be two tenths of an ephah1 of fine flour mixed with oil, a food offering to the Lord with a pleasing aroma, and the drink offering with it shall be of wine, a fourth of a hin.2 14 And you shall eat neither bread nor grain parched or fresh until this same day, until you have brought the offering of your God: it is a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
3 Israel was choly to the Lord,
the firstfruits of his harvest.
dAll who ate of it incurred guilt;
disaster came upon them,
declares the Lord.”
16 If the dough offered as tfirstfruits is holy, so is the whole lump, and if the root is holy, so are the branches.
Stand Firm
13 But we ought always to give thanks to God for you, kbrothers beloved by the Lord, because God chose you as the lfirstfruits1 to be saved, through msanctification by the Spirit and belief in the truth.
4 It is these who have not defiled themselves with women, for they are virgins. It is these who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. These have been redeemed from mankind as bfirstfruits for God and the Lamb,
