The First Fruits
24 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
21 sections
- Allotted to the Priests
- Church of Christ
- Different Kinds of all Agricultural Produce
- Different Kinds of Barley Harvest
- Different Kinds of Fruit of New Trees in Fourth Year
- Different Kinds of Honey
- Different Kinds of Wheat Harvest
- Different Kinds of Wine and Oil
- Different Kinds of Wool
- First Converts in Any Place
- God Honored by the offering of
- Holy to the Lord
- Law of, Restored After the Captivity
- Offering of, Consecrated the Whole
- Resurrection of Christ
- The Jewish Church
- To be Brought to God's House
- To be offered in a Basket
- To be offered with Thanksgiving
- To be offered without Delay
- To be the Very Best of Their Kind
Allotted to the Priests
- Numbers 18:12–13 I give you all the freshest olive oil and all the finest new wine and grain that the Israelites give to the LORD as their firstfruits. …
- Leviticus 23:20 The priest is to wave the lambs as a wave offering before the LORD, together with the bread of the firstfruits. The bread and the two lambs shall be holy to the LORD for the priest.
- Deuteronomy 18:3–5 This shall be the priests’ share from the people who offer a sacrifice, whether a bull or a sheep: the priests are to be given the shoulder, the jowls, and the stomach. …
Church of Christ
- James 1:18 He chose to give us birth through the word of truth, that we would be a kind of firstfruits of His creation.
- Revelation 14:4 These are the ones who have not been defiled with women, for they are virgins. They follow the Lamb wherever He goes. They have been redeemed from among men as firstfruits to God and to the Lamb.
Different Kinds of all Agricultural Produce
- Deuteronomy 26:2 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,
Different Kinds of Barley Harvest
- Leviticus 23:10–14 “Speak to the Israelites and say, ‘When you enter the land that I am giving you and you reap its harvest, you are to bring to the priest a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest. …
Different Kinds of Fruit of New Trees in Fourth Year
- Leviticus 19:23–24 When you enter the land and plant any kind of tree for food, you shall regard the fruit as forbidden. For three years it will be forbidden to you and must not be eaten. …
Different Kinds of Honey
- 2 Chronicles 31:5 As soon as the order went out, the Israelites generously provided the firstfruits of the grain, new wine, oil, and honey, and of all the produce of the field, and they brought in an abundance — a tithe of everything.
Different Kinds of Wheat Harvest
- Exodus 23:16 You are also to keep the Feast of Harvest with the firstfruits of the produce from what you sow in the field. And keep the Feast of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather your produce from the field.
- Leviticus 23:16–17 You shall count off fifty days until the day after the seventh Sabbath, and then present an offering of new grain to the LORD. …
Different Kinds of Wine and Oil
- Deuteronomy 18:4 You are to give them the firstfruits of your grain, new wine, and oil, and the first wool sheared from your flock.
Different Kinds of Wool
- Deuteronomy 18:4 You are to give them the firstfruits of your grain, new wine, and oil, and the first wool sheared from your flock.
First Converts in Any Place
- Romans 16:5 Greet also the church that meets at their house. Greet my beloved Epenetus, who was the first convert to Christ in the province of Asia.
God Honored by the offering of
- Proverbs 3:9 Honor the LORD with your wealth and with the firstfruits of all your crops;
Holy to the Lord
- Ezekiel 48:14 They must not sell or exchange any of it, and they must not transfer this best part of the land, for it is holy to the LORD.
Law of, Restored After the Captivity
- Nehemiah 10:35 We will also bring the firstfruits of our land and of every fruit tree to the house of the LORD year by year.
- Nehemiah 10:37 Moreover, we will bring to the priests at the storerooms of the house of our God the firstfruits of our dough, of our grain offerings, of the fruit of all our trees, and of our new wine and oil. A tenth of our produce belongs to …
- Nehemiah 13:31 I also arranged for contributions of wood at the appointed times, and for the firstfruits. Remember me, O my God, with favor.
Offering of, Consecrated the Whole
- Romans 11:16 If the first part of the dough is holy, so is the whole batch; if the root is holy, so are the branches.
Resurrection of Christ
- 1 Corinthians 15:20 But Christ has indeed been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.
- 1 Corinthians 15:23 But each in his own turn: Christ the firstfruits; then at His coming, those who belong to Him.
The Jewish Church
- Jeremiah 2:3 Israel was holy to the LORD, the firstfruits of His harvest. All who devoured her were found guilty; disaster came upon them,’” declares the LORD.
To be Brought to God's House
- Exodus 34:26 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.”
To be offered in a Basket
- Deuteronomy 26:2 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,
To be offered with Thanksgiving
- Deuteronomy 26:3–10 to the priest who is serving at that time, and say to him, “I declare today to the LORD your God that I have entered the land that the LORD swore to our fathers to give us.” …
To be offered without Delay
- Exodus 22:29 You must not hold back offerings from your granaries or vats. You are to give Me the firstborn of your sons.
To be the Very Best of Their Kind
- Numbers 18:12 I give you all the freshest olive oil and all the finest new wine and grain that the Israelites give to the LORD as their firstfruits.
Related topics
Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.