Nehemiah 10:35
in Nehemiah 10We will also bring the firstfruits of our land and of every fruit tree to the house of the LORD year by year.
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ASV
and to bring the first-fruits of our ground, and the first-fruits of all fruit of all manner of trees, year by year, unto the house of Jehovah;
KJV
And to bring the firstfruits of our ground, and the firstfruits of all fruit of all trees, year by year, unto the house of the Lord:
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This verse in Nehemiah 10
Commentary
4 notes on this verseAnd to bring the firstfruits of our ground,.... Not that they cast lots to do this, but they bound themselves with an oath, according to the law, to do it; this is the first of all the fruits of the earth, Exo 23:19, though Aben Ezra restrains it to the sheaf of the firstfruits, and to the two wave loaves, Lev 23:10, and the firstfruits of all fruit of all trees; which, as Aben Ezra observes, their wise men restrain to the seven kinds only mentioned in Deu 8:8.
This site's exposition
firstfruits of our ground
on Nehemiah 10:35-36
The fifth and sixth ordinances bring the firstfruits of the ground and of every tree yearly to the house of the Lord, and the firstborn of sons and of cattle, herds and flocks, to the priests who serve there, both laws written in Moses and both now sworn again. Gill records that later teaching narrowed the fruit-tree offering to the seven kinds of Deuteronomy 8:8, a reading beyond the plain word but carried by the tradition that received it. The firstborn clause recalls Exodus 13, where the Lord's claim on every firstborn is answered by the standing substitution of the Levites for the nation.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
When Israel was first brought into covenant with God it was done by sacrifice and the sprinkling of blood, Exod. xxiv. But here it was done by the more natural and common way of sealing and subscribing the written articles of the covenant, which bound them to no more than was already their duty.
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
A minute and particular enumeration of the first-fruits was made, that all might be made fully aware of their obligations, and that none might excuse themselves on pretext of ignorance from withholding taxes which the poverty of many, and the irreligion of others, had made them exceedingly prone to evade.
The words behind it
13 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וּלְהָבִ֞יא | ulehavi' | and to bring | H935 → | 2568 times |
| אֶת־ | ʾet- | <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| בִּכּוּרֵ֣י | bikurei | [the] first-fruits of | H1061 → | 17 times |
| אַדְמָתֵ֗נוּ | ʾadmatenu | ground our | H127 → | 225 times |
| וּבִכּוּרֵ֛י | uvikurei | and [the] first-fruits of | H1061 → | 17 times |
| כָּל־ | kol- | all | H3605 → | 5413 times |
| פְּרִ֥י | peri | [the] fruit of | H6529 → | 119 times |
| כָל־ | khol- | every | H3605 → | 5413 times |
| עֵ֖ץ | ʾetz | tree | H6086 → | 328 times |
| שָׁנָ֣ה | shanah | a year | H8141 → | 877 times |
| בְשָׁנָ֑ה | veshanah | in a year | H8141 → | 877 times |
| לְבֵ֖ית | leveit | to [the] house of | H1004 → | 2046 times |
| יְהוָֽה׃ | yahweh | Yahweh | H3068 → | 6520 times |
וּלְהָבִ֞יאand to bring
ulehavi'H935 →2568 times
אֶת־<obj.>
ʾet-H853 →10935 times
בִּכּוּרֵ֣י[the] first-fruits of
bikureiH1061 →17 times
אַדְמָתֵ֗נוּground our
ʾadmatenuH127 →225 times
וּבִכּוּרֵ֛יand [the] first-fruits of
uvikureiH1061 →17 times
כָּל־all
kol-H3605 →5413 times
פְּרִ֥י[the] fruit of
periH6529 →119 times
כָל־every
khol-H3605 →5413 times
עֵ֖ץtree
ʾetzH6086 →328 times
שָׁנָ֣הa year
shanahH8141 →877 times
בְשָׁנָ֑הin a year
veshanahH8141 →877 times
לְבֵ֖יתto [the] house of
leveitH1004 →2046 times
יְהוָֽה׃Yahweh
yahwehH3068 →6520 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Exodus 34:26Bring 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.”
it 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 3 separate paths from here.
- Exodus 23:19
Through
Exodus 23:19Bring 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.
it 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 separate 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…
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Exodus 22:29
You must not hold back offerings from your granaries or vats. You are to give Me the firstborn of your sons.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- 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…
- Exodus 34:26
Through
Deuteronomy 26:2you 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…
it leads to
- 1 Corinthians 15:20
But Christ has indeed been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- 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,…
- 1 Corinthians 15:20
Through
Numbers 18:12I 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.
it leads to
- 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.
- Deuteronomy 18:4
About Nehemiah
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.