Leviticus 2:12
Good News Translation
An offering of the first grain that you harvest each year shall be brought to the LORD, but it is not to be burned on the altar.

New Revised Standard Version
You may bring them to the LORD as an offering of choice products, but they shall not be offered on the altar for a pleasing odor.

Contemporary English Version
You may offer either of them separately, when you present the first part of your harvest to me, but they must never be burned on the altar.

New American Bible
Such you may present to the LORD in the offering of the first produce that is processed, but they are not to be placed on the altar for a pleasing odor.

Douay-Rheims Bible
You shall offer only the firstfruits of them and gifts: but they shall not be put upon the altar, for a savour of sweetness.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

You shall offer only the firstfruits of them and gifts: but they shall not be put upon the altar, for a savour of sweetness.

the oblation

Genesis 23:10,11,17 Now Ephron dwelt in the midst of the children of Heth. And Ephron made answer to Abraham in the hearing of all that went in at the gate of the city, saying: . . .

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 23:10,11,19 Six years thou shalt sow thy ground, and shalt gather the corn thereof. . . .

Numbers 15:20 Of the things you eat. As you separate firstfruits of your barnfloors:

Deuteronomy 26:10 And therefore now I offer the firstfruits of the land which the Lord hath given me. And thou shalt leave them in the sight of the Lord thy God, adoring the Lord thy God.

2 Chronicles 31:5 Which when it was noised abroad in the ears of the people, the children of Israel offered in abundance the firstfruits of corn, wine, and oil, and honey: and brought the tithe of all things which the ground bringeth forth.

1 Corinthians 15:20 But now Christ is risen from the dead, the firstfruits of them that sleep:

Revelation 14:4 These are they who were not defiled with women: for they are virgins. These follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were purchased from among men, the firstfruits to God and to the Lamb.

be burnt [heb] ascend

Context
Laws for Grain Offerings
11Every oblation that is offered to the Lord shall be made without leaven: neither shall any leaven or honey be burnt in the sacrifice to the Lord. 12You shall offer only the firstfruits of them and gifts: but they shall not be put upon the altar, for a savour of sweetness.13Whatsoever sacrifice thou offerest, thou shalt season it with salt: neither shalt thou take away the salt of the covenant of thy God from thy sacrifice. In all thy oblations thou shalt offer salt.…
Cross References
Exodus 34:22
Thou shalt keep the feast of weeks with the firstfruits of the corn of thy wheat harvest, and the feast when the time of the year returneth that all things are laid in.

Leviticus 7:13
Moreover loaves of leavened bread with the sacrifice of thanks, which is offered for peace offerings:

Leviticus 23:10
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.

Leviticus 23:17
Out of all your dwellings, two loaves of the firstfruits, of two tenths of flour leavened, which you shall bake for the firstfruits of the Lord.

Leviticus 2:11
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