Ezekiel 44:30
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The best of all the firstfruits and of every contribution from all your offerings will belong to the priests. You are to give your first batch of dough to the priest, so that a blessing may rest upon your homes.
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and Azariah, the chief priest of the household of Zadok, answered him, “Since the people began to bring their contributions into the house of the LORD, we have had enough to eat and there is plenty left over, because the LORD has blessed His people; this great abundance is what is left over.”
You are to give them the firstfruits of your grain, new wine, and oil, and the first wool sheared from your flock.
You must not hold back offerings from your granaries or vats. You are to give Me the firstborn of your sons.
He chose to give us birth through the word of truth, that we would be a kind of firstfruits of His creation.
for all the firstborn are Mine. On the day I struck down every firstborn in the land of Egypt, I consecrated to Myself all the firstborn in Israel, both man and beast. They are Mine; I am the LORD.”
Bring the best of the firstfruits of your soil to the house of the LORD your God. You must not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.
“Consecrate to Me every firstborn male. The firstborn from every womb among the Israelites belongs to Me, both of man and beast.”
you are to present to the LORD the firstborn male of every womb. All the firstborn males of your livestock belong to the LORD.