Deuteronomy 18:4
Good News Translation
They are to receive the first share of the grain, wine, olive oil, and wool.

New Revised Standard Version
The first fruits of your grain, your wine, and your oil, as well as the first of the fleece of your sheep, you shall give him.

Contemporary English Version
In addition, they will receive the first part of your grain harvest and part of your first batches of wine and olive oil. You must also give them the first wool that is cut from your sheep each year.

New American Bible
The first fruits of your grain, your wine, and your oil, as well as the first shearing of your flock, you shall also give him.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The firstfruits also of corn, of wine, and of oil, and a part of the wool from the shearing of their sheep.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The firstfruits also of corn, of wine, and of oil, and a part of the wool from the shearing of their sheep.

first-fruit

Deuteronomy 26:9,10 And brought us into this place, and gave us this land flowing with milk and honey. . . .

Exodus 22:29 Thou shalt not delay to pay thy tithes and thy firstfruits: thou shalt give the firstborn of thy sons to me.

Exodus 23:19 Thou shalt carry the first-fruits 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.

Leviticus 23:10,17 Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: When you shall have entered into the land which I will give you, and shall reap your corn, you shall bring sheaves of ears, the firstfruits of your harvest to the priest. . . .

Numbers 18:12-24 All the best of the oil, and of the wine, and of the corn, whatsoever firstfruits they offer to the Lord, I have given them to thee. . . .

Nehemiah 12:44-47 And they kept the watch of their God, and the observance of expiation, and the singing men, and the porters, according to the commandment of David, and of Solomon his son. . . .

the fleece

Job 21:20 His eyes shall see his own destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty.

Context
Provision for Priests and Levites
3This shall be the priest's due from the people, and from them that offer victims: whether they sacrifice an ox, or a sheep, they shall give to the priest the shoulder and the breast: 4The firstfruits also of corn, of wine, and of oil, and a part of the wool from the shearing of their sheep.5For the Lord thy God hath chosen him of all thy tribes, to stand and to minister to the name of the Lord, him and his sons for ever.…
Cross References
Romans 8:23
And not only it, but ourselves also, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit: even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption of the sons of God, the redemption of our body.

Numbers 18:12
All the best of the oil, and of the wine, and of the corn, whatsoever firstfruits they offer to the Lord, I have given them to thee.

Deuteronomy 18:3
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