From Nave’s Topical Bible
First Fruits
Every passage the 1896 Nave’s Topical Biblegathers under this heading, in Nave’s own arrangement and then in Bible order. MannaFest has not written this page — it is the older index, transcribed, with the Word travelling beside each reference.
- 26Passages listed
- 13Books of the 66
- 1896Nave's edition
How Nave’s arranged it
- First ripe of fruits, grain, oil, wine, and first of fleece, required as an offeringExodus 22:29Leviticus 2:12–16Numbers 18:12Deuteronomy 18:42 Chronicles 31:5Nehemiah 10:35Nehemiah 10:37Nehemiah 10:39Proverbs 3:9Jeremiah 2:3Romans 11:16
- Offerings of, must be free from blemishNumbers 18:12
- Presented at the tabernacleExodus 22:29Exodus 23:19Exodus 34:26Deuteronomy 26:3–10
- Belonged to the priestsLeviticus 23:20Numbers 18:12Numbers 18:13Deuteronomy 18:3–5
- Freewill offerings of, given to the prophets2 Kings 4:42
- Wave offering ofLeviticus 23:10–14Leviticus 23:17
- As a heave offeringNumbers 15:20Nehemiah 10:37Ezekiel 44:30
- To be offered as a thank-offering upon entrance into the Land of PromiseDeuteronomy 26:3–10
- FIGURATIVERomans 8:23Romans 11:161 Corinthians 15:201 Corinthians 15:23James 1:18
The passages, in Bible order (26)
The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 16 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.
- Exodus 22:29
You must not hold back offerings from your granaries or vats. You are to give Me the firstborn of your sons.
Commentary on Exodus 22:292 voices
Those emotions therefore which are morally good are the first fruits of our senses, whereas the others are of common and indifferent stock. This classification was used by Moses, following in that respect the language of the Jews, in his reference to the threshing floor of the law: "The tithes of your threshing floor and of your wine vat you shall not delay to pay: you shall give the firstborn of your sons to me."
Ambrose of Milan· CAIN AND ABEL 2.1.5, 397Patristic
Thou shall not delay to offer the first of thy ripe fruits,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- 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.
Commentary on Exodus 23:191 voice
Our physical nature rebels against the thought of making the nourishment of the living a garnish for the dead or the cause of life an accessory to the death of the body.
Clement of Alexandria· The Stromata Book 2, 215Patristic
- 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.”
Commentary on Exodus 34:261 voice
The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring,.... This, and another law in this verse, concerning not seething a kid in his mother's milk, are repeated from Exo 23:19. See Gill on Exo 23:19.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Leviticus 2:12–16
You may bring them to the LORD as an offering of firstfruits, but they are not to be offered on the altar as a pleasing aroma.
Commentary on Leviticus 2:12–161 voice
As for the oblation of the firstfruits, ye shall offer them unto the Lord,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- 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.
Commentary on Leviticus 23:10–141 voice
Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Leviticus 23:17
Bring two loaves of bread from your dwellings as a wave offering, each made from two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour, baked with leaven, as the firstfruits to the LORD.
Commentary on Leviticus 23:171 voice
Two loaves of bread made from the first fruits of the new harvest were rightly ordered to be offered, for the church gathers those it can consecrate to its Redeemer as a new family from both peoples, the Jews and the Gentiles.
Bede· Homilies on the Gospels 2.17, 735Patristic
- 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.
Commentary on Leviticus 23:201 voice
And the priests shall wave them with the bread of the firstfruits,.... The two loaves called the two wave loaves, Lev 23:17; with which were waved the two lambs of the peace offerings; and these alive, as Jarchi and Ben Gersom intimate.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Numbers 15:20
From the first of your dough, you are to lift up a cake as a contribution; offer it just like an offering from the threshing floor.
Commentary on Numbers 15:201 voice
The holy movements of our senses, which are according to virtues, themselves are the firstfruits of a spiritual ark: therefore they are likened to a rural ark, in which the corn is winnowed.
Ambrose of Milan· On Cain and Abel, 397Patristic
- 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.
Commentary on Numbers 18:121 voice
All the best of the oil, and all the best of the wine, and of the wheat,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Numbers 18:13
The firstfruits of everything in their land that they bring to the LORD will belong to you. Every ceremonially clean person in your household may eat them.
Commentary on Numbers 18:131 voice
And whatsoever is first ripe in the land,.... Of any other sort of fruit, figs, pomegranates, apples, plums, pears, &c. besides olives and vines: which they shall bring unto the Lord, shall be thine; which they shall bring in a basket to the tabernacle, where it was, or to the temple, when built: this the priests were to have, see Deu 26:2, everyone that is clean in thine house shall eat of it; See Gill on Num 18:11.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- 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.
Commentary on Deuteronomy 18:3–51 voice
And this shall be the priest's due from the people, from them that offer sacrifice,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- 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.
Commentary on Deuteronomy 18:41 voice
The firstfruit also of thy corn, and of thy wine, and of thy oil,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- 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.”
Commentary on Deuteronomy 26:3–101 voice
And thou shalt go unto the priest that shall be in those days,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- 2 Kings 4:42
Now a man from Baal-shalishah came to the man of God with a sack of twenty loaves of barley bread from the first ripe grain. “Give it to the people to eat,” said Elisha.
Commentary on 2 Kings 4:422 voices
Here two miracles are proposed, which Elisha performed while he was among his disciples. He accomplished the first when he caused death to leave the pot, where, as they said, it had hidden. He performed the second when he nourished one hundred prophets with a …
Ephrem the Syrian· ON THE SECOND BOOK OF KINGS 4:38, 373Patristic
And there came a man from Baalshalisha,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- 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.
Commentary on 2 Chronicles 31:51 voice
And as soon as the commandment came abroad,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- 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.
Commentary on Nehemiah 10:351 voice
And 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.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
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