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Deuteronomy 18

Deut. 18:4 KJV (With Strong’s)

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The firstfruit
re'shiyth (Hebrew #7225)
the first, in place, time, order or rank (specifically, a firstfruit)
KJV usage: beginning, chief(-est), first(-fruits, part, time), principal thing.
Pronounce: ray-sheeth'
Origin: from the same as 7218
k also of thy corn
dagan (Hebrew #1715)
properly, increase, i.e. grain
KJV usage: corn ((floor)), wheat.
Pronounce: daw-gawn'
Origin: from 1711
, of thy wine
tiyrowsh (Hebrew #8492)
from 3423 in the sense of expulsion; must or fresh grape-juice (as just squeezed out); by implication (rarely) fermented wine
KJV usage: (new, sweet) wine.
Pronounce: tee-roshe'
Origin: or tiyrosh {tee-roshe'}
, and of thine oil
yitshar (Hebrew #3323)
oil (as producing light); figuratively, anointing
KJV usage: + anointed oil.
Pronounce: yits-hawr'
Origin: from 6671
, and the first
re'shiyth (Hebrew #7225)
the first, in place, time, order or rank (specifically, a firstfruit)
KJV usage: beginning, chief(-est), first(-fruits, part, time), principal thing.
Pronounce: ray-sheeth'
Origin: from the same as 7218
of the fleece
gez (Hebrew #1488)
a fleece (as shorn); also mown grass
KJV usage: fleece, mowing, mown grass.
Pronounce: gaze
Origin: from 1494
of thy sheep
tso'n (Hebrew #6629)
from an unused root meaning to migrate; a collective name for a flock (of sheep or goats); also figuratively (of men)
KJV usage: (small) cattle, flock (+ -s), lamb (+ -s), sheep((-cote, -fold, -shearer, -herds)).
Pronounce: tsone
Origin: or tsaown (Psalm 144:13) {tseh-one'}
, shalt thou give
nathan (Hebrew #5414)
to give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.)
KJV usage: add, apply, appoint, ascribe, assign, X avenge, X be ((healed)), bestow, bring (forth, hither), cast, cause, charge, come, commit, consider, count, + cry, deliver (up), direct, distribute, do, X doubtless, X without fail, fasten, frame, X get, give (forth, over, up), grant, hang (up), X have, X indeed, lay (unto charge, up), (give) leave, lend, let (out), + lie, lift up, make, + O that, occupy, offer, ordain, pay, perform, place, pour, print, X pull , put (forth), recompense, render, requite, restore, send (out), set (forth), shew, shoot forth (up), + sing, + slander, strike, (sub-)mit, suffer, X surely, X take, thrust, trade, turn, utter, + weep, + willingly, + withdraw, + would (to) God, yield.
Pronounce: naw-than'
Origin: a primitive root
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Ex. 22:29• 29{i}—Thou shalt not delay the fullness of thy threshing-floor and the outflow of thy winepress. The firstborn of thy sons shalt thou give unto me.{/i} (Ex. 22:29)

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Corn,
First-Fruits,
Oil,
Sheep,
Wine

Cross References

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first-fruit.
Deut. 26:9‑10• 9and he hath brought us into this place, and hath given us this land, even a land that floweth with milk and honey.
 10And now, behold, I have brought the firstfruits of the land which thou, O Jehovah, hast given me. And thou shalt set it before Jehovah thy God, {i}and worship before Jehovah thy God{/i}. (Deut. 26:9‑10)
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Ex. 22:29• 29{i}—Thou shalt not delay the fullness of thy threshing-floor and the outflow of thy winepress. The firstborn of thy sons shalt thou give unto me.{/i} (Ex. 22:29)
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Ex. 23:19• 19{i}The first of the first-fruits of thy land thou shalt bring into the house of Jehovah thy God. Thou shalt not boil a kid in its mother's milk.{/i} (Ex. 23:19)
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Lev. 23:10,17• 10Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come into the land which I give unto you, and shall reap the harvest thereof, then ye shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest unto the priest.
 17{i}Out of your dwellings shall ye bring two wave-loaves, of two tenths of fine flour; with leaven shall they be baken; as first-fruits to Jehovah.{/i} (Lev. 23:10,17)
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Num. 18:12‑24• 12{i}All the best of the oil, and all the best of the new wine, and of the wheat, the firstfruits of them which they give to Jehovah, have I given thee.{/i}
 13{i}The first ripe of everything that is in their land, which they shall bring to Jehovah, shall be thine; every one that is clean in thy house shall eat of it.{/i}
 14{i}Every devoted thing in Israel shall be thine.{/i}
 15{i}Everything that breaketh open the womb of all flesh, which they present to Jehovah, of men or of beasts, shall be thine; nevertheless the firstborn of man shalt thou in any case ransom, and the firstborn of unclean beasts shalt thou ransom.{/i}
 16{i}And those that are to be ransomed from a month old shalt thou ransom, according to thy valuation, for the money of five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, which is twenty gerahs.{/i}
 17{i}But the firstborn of a cow, or the firstborn of a sheep, or the firstborn of a goat, thou shalt not ransom: they are holy. Thou shalt sprinkle their blood on the altar, and their fat shalt thou burn as an offering by fire for a sweet odour to Jehovah.{/i}
 18{i}And their flesh shall be thine; as the wave-breast and as the right shoulder shall it be thine.{/i}
 19{i}All the heave-offerings of the holy things, which the children of Israel offer to Jehovah, have I given thee, and to thy sons and to thy daughters with thee, by an everlasting statute: it shall be an everlasting covenant of salt before Jehovah unto thee and thy seed with thee.{/i}
 20{i}And Jehovah said to Aaron, In their land thou shalt have no inheritance, neither shalt thou have any portion among them: I am thy portion and thine inheritance among the children of Israel.{/i}
 21{i}And to the children of Levi, behold, I have given all the tithes in Israel for an inheritance, for their service which they perform, the service of the tent of meeting.{/i}
 22{i}Neither shall the children of Israel henceforth come near the tent of meeting, to bear sin and die.{/i}
 23{i}But the Levite, he shall perform the service of the tent of meeting, and they shall bear their iniquity: it is an everlasting statute throughout your generations. And among the children of Israel shall they possess no inheritance;{/i}
 24{i}for I have given for an inheritance to the Levites the tithes of the children of Israel, which they offer as a heave-offering to Jehovah; therefore I have said of them, They shall possess no inheritance among the children of Israel.{/i} (Num. 18:12‑24)
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2 Chron. 31:4‑10• 4{i}And he commanded the people that dwelt in Jerusalem to give the portion of the priests and the Levites, that they might be encouraged in the law of Jehovah.{/i}
 5{i}And as soon as the commandment was published, the children of Israel gave in abundance the firstfruits of corn, new wine and oil and honey, and of all the increase of the field; and they brought in abundantly the tithe of all things.{/i}
 6{i}And the children of Israel and of Judah, that dwelt in the cities of Judah, they also brought the tithe of oxen and sheep, and the tithe of holy things which were consecrated to Jehovah their God, and laid them by heaps.{/i}
 7{i}In the third month they began to lay the heaps, and finished them in the seventh month.{/i}
 8{i}And Hezekiah and the princes came and saw the heaps, and they blessed Jehovah, and his people Israel.{/i}
 9{i}And Hezekiah questioned the priests and the Levites concerning the heaps.{/i}
 10{i}And Azariah the chief priest of the house of Zadok spoke to him and said, Since they began to bring the heave-offerings into the house of Jehovah, we have eaten and been satisfied and have left plenty; for Jehovah has blessed his people; and what is left is this great store.{/i} (2 Chron. 31:4‑10)
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Neh. 12:44‑47• 44{i}And at that time men were appointed over the chambers of the treasures for the heave-offerings, for the firstfruits, and for the tithes, to gather into them, out of the fields of the cities, the portions assigned by the law for the priests and the Levites; for Judah rejoiced over the priests, and over the Levites that waited.{/i}
 45{i}And, with the singers and the doorkeepers, they kept the ward of their God, and the ward of the purification, according to the commandment of David and of Solomon his son.{/i}
 46{i}For of old, in the days of David and Asaph, there were the chiefs of the singers, and songs of praise and thanksgivings to God.{/i}
 47{i}And all Israel, in the days of Zerubbabel and in the days of Nehemiah, gave the portions of the singers and the doorkeepers, every day what was needed, and they consecrated things for the Levites; and the Levites consecrated for the children of Aaron.{/i} (Neh. 12:44‑47)
the fleece.
Job 21:20• 20His own eyes see his blow,{HR}And he drinketh of the wrath of the Almighty. (Job 21:20)

J. N. Darby Translation

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The firstfruits also of thy corn, of thy new wine, and of thine oil, and the firstfruits of the shearing of thy sheep, shalt thou give him;

W. Kelly Translation

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The firstfruit of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thine oil, and the first of the fleece of thy sheep shalt thou give him.