Ezekiel 44:30 “The best of all the firstfruits and of every contribution from all you…”

Ezekiel 44:30

The best of all the firstfruits and of every contribution from all your offerings will belong to the priests. You are to give your first batch of dough to the priest, so that a blessing may rest upon your homes.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

And the first of all the firstfruits of all things, and every oblation of all, of every sort of your oblations, shall be the priest’s: ye shall also give unto the priest the first of your dough, that he may cause the blessing to rest in thine house.

World English Bible

The first of all the first fruits of every thing, and every offering of everything, of all your offerings, shall be for the priest. You shall also give to the priests the first of your dough, to cause a blessing to rest on your house.

American Standard Version

And the first of all the first-fruits of every thing, and every oblation of everything, of all your oblations, shall be for the priest: ye shall also give unto the priests the first of your dough, to cause a blessing to rest on thy house.

Geneva Bible 1599

And all the first of all the first borne, and euery oblation, euen all of euery sort of your oblations shall be the Priestes. Ye shall also giue vnto the Priest the first of your dough, that he may cause the blessing to rest in thine house.

Darby Translation

And the first of all the first-fruits of every [kind], and every heave-offering of every [kind], of all your heave-offerings, shall be for the priests; ye shall also give unto the priest the first of your dough, that he may cause the blessing to rest on thy house.

Young's Literal Translation

And the first of all the first-fruits of all, and every heave-offering of all, of all your heave-offerings, are the priests': and the first of your dough ye give to the priest, to cause a blessing to rest on thy house.

Bible in Basic English

And the best of all the first-fruits of everything, and every offering which is lifted up of all your offerings, will be for the priests: and you are to give the priest the first of your bread-making, so causing a blessing to come on your house.

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Cross references

“all the first-fruits”

Nehemiah 10:35–37 Numbers 15:19–21 Numbers 18:12–18 Deuteronomy 18:4 2 Chronicles 31:10 Exodus 13:2

Nehemiah 10:35–37 · BSB

We will also bring the firstfruits of our land and of every fruit tree to the house of the LORD year by year.

Numbers 15:19–21 · BSB

and you eat the food of the land, you shall lift up an offering to the LORD.

Numbers 18:12–18 · BSB

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.

Deuteronomy 18:4 · BSB

You are to give them the firstfruits of your grain, new wine, and oil, and the first wool sheared from your flock.

2 Chronicles 31:10 · BSB

and Azariah, the chief priest of the household of Zadok, answered him, “Since the people began to bring their contributions into the house of the LORD, we have had enough to eat, and there is plenty left over, because th…

Exodus 13:2 · BSB

“Consecrate to Me every firstborn male. The firstborn from every womb among the Israelites belongs to Me, both of man and beast.”

“that he may”

Deuteronomy 26:10–15 Proverbs 3:9 Proverbs 3:10 Malachi 3:10 Malachi 3:11

Deuteronomy 26:10–15 · BSB

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 Him.

Proverbs 3:9 · BSB

Honor the LORD with your wealth and with the firstfruits of all your crops;

Proverbs 3:10 · BSB

then your barns will be filled with plenty, and your vats will overflow with new wine.

Malachi 3:10 · BSB

Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, so that there may be food in My house. Test Me in this,” says the LORD of Hosts. “See if I will not open the windows of heaven and pour out for you blessing without measure.

Malachi 3:11 · BSB

I will rebuke the devourer for you, so that it will not destroy the fruits of your land, and the vine in your field will not fail to produce fruit,” says the LORD of Hosts.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

29They shall eat the grain offerings, the sin offerings, and the guilt offerings. Everything in Israel devoted to the LORD will belong to them.

31The priests may not eat any bird or animal found dead or torn by wild beasts.

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