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What Does “Firstfruits” Mean in the Bible?

The first fruits of the harvest, offered to God to thank him.

Where it appears in the Bible

Exodus 23:19; Deuteronomy 26:2

What the Bible says

Exodus 23:19

Thou shalt carry the firstfruits 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

Thou shalt take the first of all thy fruits, and put then? in a basket, and shalt go to the place which the Lord thy God shall choose, that his name may be invocated there:

Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner revision), public domain.

Source: RAE, “primicia”; Deuteronomy 26:2

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