Numbers 15:20
Good News Translation
When you bake bread, the first loaf of the first bread made from the new grain is to be presented as a special contribution to the LORD. This is to be presented in the same way as the special contribution you make from the grain you thresh.

New Revised Standard Version
From your first batch of dough you shall present a loaf as a donation; you shall present it just as you present a donation from the threshing floor.

Contemporary English Version
From the first batch of bread dough that you make after each new grain harvest, make a loaf of bread and offer it to me, just as you offer grain.

New American Bible
A round loaf from your first batch of dough you shall offer as a contribution. Just like a contribution from the threshing floor you shall offer it.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Of the things you eat. As you separate firstfruits of your barnfloors:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Of the things you eat. As you separate firstfruits of your barnfloors:

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Numbers 18:12 All the best of the oil, and of the wine, and of the corn, whatsoever firstfruits they offer to the Lord, I have given them to thee.

Exodus 23:19 Thou shalt carry the first-fruits of the corn of thy ground to the house of the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not boil a kid in the milk of his dam.

Deuteronomy 26:2-10 Thou shalt take the first of all thy fruits, and put them in a basket, and shalt go to the place which the Lord thy God shall choose, that his name may be invocated there: . . .

Nehemiah 10:37 And that we would bring the firstfruits of our meats, and of our libations, and the fruit of every tree, of the vintage also and of oil to the priests, to the storehouse of our God, and the tithes of our ground to the Levites. The Levites also shall receive the tithes of our works out of all the cities.

Proverbs 3:9,10 And thy barns shall be filled with abundance, and thy presses shall run over with wine. . . .

Ezekiel 44:30 And the firstfruits of all the firstborn, and all the libations of all things that are offered, shall be the priest's: and you shall give the firstfruits of your meats to the priest, that he may return a blessing upon thy house.

Matthew 6:33 Seek ye therefore first the kingdom of God, and his justice, and all these things shall be added unto you.

Romans 11:16 For if the firstfruit be holy, so is the lump also: and if the root be holy, so are the branches.

1 Corinthians 15:20 But now Christ is risen from the dead, the firstfruits of them that sleep:

James 1:18 For of his own will hath he begotten us by the word of truth, that we might be some beginning of his creature.

Revelation 14:4 These are they who were not defiled with women: for they are virgins. These follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were purchased from among men, the firstfruits to God and to the Lamb.

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Leviticus 2:14 But if thou offer a gift of the firstfruits of thy corn to the Lord, of the ears yet green, thou shalt dry it at the fire, and break it small like meal; and so shalt thou offer thy firstfruits to the Lord:

Leviticus 23:20,16,17 And when the priest hath lifted them up with the loaves of the firstfruits before the Lord, they shall fall to his use. . . .

Context
Laws about Offerings
19And shall eat of the bread of that country, you shall separate firstfruits to the Lord, 20Of the things you eat. As you separate firstfruits of your barnfloors:21So also shall you give firstfruits of your dough to the Lord.…
Cross References
Exodus 34:26
The first of the fruits of thy ground thou shalt offer in the house of the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not boil a kid in the milk of his dam.

Leviticus 23:14
You shall not eat either bread, or parched corn, or frumenty or the harvest, until the day that you shall offer thereof to your God. It is a precept for ever throughout your generations, and all your dwellings.

Numbers 15:21
So also shall you give firstfruits of your dough to the Lord.

Deuteronomy 14:22
Every year thou shalt set aside the tithes of all thy fruits that the earth bringeth forth,

Deuteronomy 14:23
And thou shalt eat before the Lord thy God in the place which he shall choose, that his name may be called upon therein, the tithe of thy corn, and thy wine, and thy oil, and the firstborn of thy herds and thy sheep: that thou mayst learn to fear the Lord thy God at all times.

Deuteronomy 16:13
Thou shalt celebrate the solemnity also of tabernacles seven days, when thou hast gathered in thy fruit of the barnfloor and of the winepress.

Ezekiel 44:30
And the firstfruits of all the firstborn, and all the libations of all things that are offered, shall be the priest's: and you shall give the firstfruits of your meats to the priest, that he may return a blessing upon thy house.

Numbers 15:19
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