Deuteronomy 18:4 BSB

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.

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ASV

The first-fruits of thy grain, of thy new wine, and of thine oil, and the first of the fleece of thy sheep, shalt thou give him.

KJV

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

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Original language & word study

9 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
רֵאשִׁ֨ית	re.Shit	[the] first of	H7225 →
דְּגָֽנְךָ֜	de.ga.ne.Kha	grain your	H1715 →
תִּֽירֹשְׁךָ֣	ti.ro.she.Kha	new wine your	H8492 →
וְיִצְהָרֶ֗ךָ	ve.yitz.ha.Re.kha	and fresh oil your	H3323 →
וְרֵאשִׁ֛ית	ve.re.Shit	and [the] first of	H7225 →
גֵּ֥ז	gez	[the] fleece of	H1488 →
צֹאנְךָ֖	tzo.ne.Kha	sheep your	H6629 →
תִּתֶּן־	ti.ten-	you will give	H5414 →
לּֽוֹ׃	lo	to <the> him

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Exodus 23:19
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.
leads to
- 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.”
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Deuteronomy 14:21
  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…
- Deuteronomy 26:10
  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…
- 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.
Through
Leviticus 23:10
“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…
leads to
- Exodus 23:19
  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.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Through
Exodus 22:29
You must not hold back offerings from your granaries or vats. You are to give Me the firstborn of your sons.
leads to
- 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,…
- Exodus 13:2
  “Consecrate to Me every firstborn male. The firstborn from every womb among the Israelites belongs to Me, both of man and beast.”
- Deuteronomy 26:2–10
  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…

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