KJV King James Version
The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring unto the house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother’s milk.
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Exodus 34:26
The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring unto the house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother’s milk.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
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.”
WEB World English Bible
“You shall bring the first of the first fruits of your ground to the house of Yahweh your God. “You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.”
ASV American Standard Version
The first of the first-fruits of thy ground thou shalt bring unto the house of Jehovah thy God. Thou shalt not boil a kid in its mother’s milk.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
the first of the first-fruits of the land thou dost bring into the house of Jehovah thy God; thou dost not boil a kid in its mother’s milk.’
Surrounding context — Exodus 34
23 Thrice in the year shall all your men children appear before the Lord GOD, the God of Israel.
24 For I will cast out the nations before thee, and enlarge thy borders: neither shall any man desire thy land, when thou shalt go up to appear before the LORD thy God thrice in the year.
25 Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leaven; neither shall the sacrifice of the feast of the passover be left unto the morning.
26 The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring unto the house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother’s milk.
27 And the LORD said unto Moses, Write thou these words: for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with Israel.
28 And he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.
29 And it came to pass, when Moses came down from mount Sinai with the two tables of testimony in Moses’ hand, when he came down from the mount, that Moses wist not that the skin of his face shone while he talked with him.
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רֵאשִׁ֗יתH7225 · re.shitfirst: beginningבִּכּוּרֵי֙H1061 · bik.kurfirstfruitאַדְמָ֣תְךָ֔H127 · a.da.mahland: soilתָּבִ֕יאH935 · boto come (in): comeבֵּ֖יתH1004 · betplaceיְהוָ֣הH3068 · ye.ho.vahLORDאֱלֹהֶ֑יךָH430 · e.lo.himGodלֹא־H3808 · lonotתְבַשֵּׁ֥לH1310 · ba.shalto boilגְּדִ֖יH1423 · ge.dikidבַּחֲלֵ֥בH2461 · cha.lavmilkאִמּֽוֹ׃ פH517 · emmother
Cross-references
Exodus 23:19The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring into the house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother’s milk.Deuteronomy 14:21Ye shall not eat [of] any thing that dieth of itself: thou shalt give it unto the stranger that [is] in thy gates, that he may eat it; or thou mayest sell it unto an alien: for thou [art] an holy people unto the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother’s milk.Deuteronomy 26:2That thou shalt take of the first of all the fruit of the earth, which thou shalt bring of thy land that the LORD thy God giveth thee, and shalt put [it] in a basket, and shalt go unto the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to place his name there.Proverbs 3:9-10Honour the LORD with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase:Matthew 6:33But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.1 Corinthians 15:20But now is Christ risen from the dead, [and] become the firstfruits of them that slept.Deuteronomy 26:10And now, behold, I have brought the firstfruits of the land, which thou, O LORD, hast given me. And thou shalt set it before the LORD thy God, and worship before the LORD thy God:James 1:18Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
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