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Exodus 34:26

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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.”

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Matthew Henry Bible Commentaryv. 26

God having in the foregoing chapter intimated to Moses his reconciliation to Israel, here gives proofs of it, proceeding to settle his covenant and communion with them. Four instances of the return of his favour we have in this chapter: - I. The orders he gives to Moses to come up to the mount, the next morning, and bring two tables of stone with him (Exo 34:1-4). II. His meeting him there, and the proclamation of his name (Exo 34:5-9). III. The instructions he gave him there, and his converse with him for forty days together, without intermission (v. 10-28). IV. The honour he put upon him when he sent him down with his face shining (Exo 34:29-35). In all this God dealt with Moses as a public person, and mediator between him and Israel, and a type of the great Mediator.

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Strong's Concordancev. 26

רֵאשִׁית (rêʼshîyth, H7225) — the first, in place, time, order or rank (specifically, a firstfruit) בִּכּוּר (bikkûwr, H1061) — the first-fruits of the crop אֲדָמָה (ʼădâmâh, H127) — soil (from its general redness) בּוֹא (bôwʼ, H935) — to go or come (in a wide variety of applications) בַּיִת (bayith, H1004) — a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.) יְהֹוָה (Yᵉhôvâh, H3068) — Jehovah, Jewish national name of God אֱלֹהִים (ʼĕlôhîym, H430) — gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with… בָּשַׁל (bâshal, H1310) — properly, to boil up; hence, to be done in cooking; figuratively to ripen גְּדִי (gᵉdîy, H1423) — a young goat (from browsing) אֵם (ʼêm, H517) — a mother (as the bond of the family); in a wide sense (both literally and figuratively… חָלָב (châlâb, H2461) — milk (as the richness of kine)

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Exodus 23:19rank 7

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.

Deuteronomy 14:21rank 4

You are not to eat any carcass; you may give it to the foreigner residing within your gates, and he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. For you are a holy people belonging to the LORD your God. You must not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.

Deuteronomy 26:2rank 3

you are to take some of the firstfruits of all your produce from the soil of the land that the LORD your God is giving you and put them in a basket. Then go to the place the LORD your God will choose as a dwelling for His Name,

I Corinthians 15:20rank 2

But Christ has indeed been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.

Matthew 6:33rank 2

But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be added unto you.

Deuteronomy 26:10rank 2

And now, behold, I have brought the firstfruits of the land that You, O LORD, have given me.” Then you are to place the basket before the LORD your God and bow down before Him.

James 1:18rank 1

He chose to give us birth through the word of truth, that we would be a kind of firstfruits of His creation.

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