Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version “Bring the best of the firstfruits of your soil to the house of the LORD your God. “Do not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk. New Living Translation “As you harvest your crops, bring the very best of the first harvest to the house of the LORD your God. “You must not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk. English Standard Version “The best of the firstfruits of your ground you shall bring into the house of the LORD your God. “You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk. 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. King James Bible The 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. New King James Version The first of the firstfruits of your land you shall bring into the house of the LORD your God. You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk. New American Standard Bible “You shall bring the choice first fruits of your soil into the house of the LORD your God. “You are not to boil a young goat in the milk of its mother. NASB 1995 “You shall bring the choice first fruits of your soil into the house of the LORD your God. “You are not to boil a young goat in the milk of its mother. NASB 1977 “You shall bring the choice first fruits of your soil into the house of the LORD your God. You are not to boil a kid in the milk of its mother. Legacy Standard Bible “You shall bring the choice first fruits of your ground into the house of Yahweh your God. “You shall not boil a young goat in the milk of its mother. Amplified Bible “You shall bring the choice first fruits of your ground into the house of the LORD your God. “You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk. Christian Standard Bible “Bring the best of the firstfruits of your land to the house of the LORD your God. “You must not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk. Holman Christian Standard Bible Bring the best of the firstfruits of your land to the house of the LORD your God.” You must not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.” American Standard Version The first of the first-fruits of thy ground thou shalt bring into the house of Jehovah thy God. Thou shalt not boil a kid in its mother's milk. Contemporary English Version Each year bring the best part of your first harvest to the place of worship. Don't boil a young goat in its mother's milk. English Revised Version The first of the firstfruits of thy ground thou shalt bring into the house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in its mother's milk. GOD'S WORD® Translation "You must bring the best of the first produce harvested from your soil to the house of the LORD your God. "Never cook a young goat in its mother's milk. Good News Translation "Each year bring to the house of the LORD your God the first grain that you harvest. "Do not cook a young sheep or goat in its mother's milk. International Standard Version "You are to bring the best of the first fruits of your soil to the house of the LORD your God. "You are not to boil a young goat in its mother's milk." Majority 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. NET Bible The first of the firstfruits of your soil you must bring to the house of the LORD your God. "You must not cook a young goat in its mother's milk. New Heart English Bible The first of the first fruits of your ground you shall bring into the house of the LORD your God. "You shall not boil a kid in its mother's milk. Webster's Bible Translation The first of the first-fruits 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. World English Bible You shall bring the first of the first fruits of your ground into the house of Yahweh your God. “You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk. Literal Translations Literal Standard Versionthe beginning of the first-fruits of your ground you bring into the house of your God YHWH; you do not boil a kid in its mother’s milk. Young's Literal Translation the beginning of the first-fruits of thy ground thou dost bring into the house of Jehovah thy God; thou dost not boil a kid in its mother's milk. Smith's Literal Translation The sacrifice of the first fruits of thy land thou shalt bring to the house of Jehovah thy God. Thou shalt not boil a kid in his mother's milk. Catholic Translations Douay-Rheims BibleThou 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. Catholic Public Domain Version You shall carry the first grain of the land to the house of the Lord your God. You shall not cook a young goat in the milk of its mother. New American Bible The choicest first fruits of your soil you shall bring to the house of the LORD, your God. You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk. New Revised Standard Version The choicest of the first fruits of your ground you shall bring into the house of the LORD your God. You shall not boil a kid in its mother’s milk. Translations from Aramaic Lamsa BibleThe best of the first fruits of your land you shall bring into the house of the LORD your God. You shall not cook the meat of a kid in its mother's milk. Peshitta Holy Bible Translated The beginning of the harvests of your land you shall bring to the house of LORD JEHOVAH your God; you shall not boil a goat in the milk of its mother. OT Translations JPS Tanakh 1917The choicest first-fruits of thy land thou shalt bring into the house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in its mother's milk. Brenton Septuagint Translation Thou shalt bring the first-offerings of the first-fruits of thy land into the house of the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a lamb in its mother's milk. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Three Yearly Feasts…18You must not offer the blood of My sacrifices with anything leavened, nor may the fat of My feast remain until morning. 19Bring 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. Cross References Deuteronomy 26:2 you are to take some of the firstfruits of all your produce from the soil of the land that the LORD your God is giving you and put them in a basket. Then go to the place the LORD your God will choose as a dwelling for His Name, Deuteronomy 14:22-23 You must be sure to set aside a tenth of all the produce brought forth each year from your fields. / And you are to eat a tenth of your grain, new wine, and oil, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks, in the presence of the LORD your God at the place He will choose as a dwelling for His Name, so that you may learn to fear the LORD your God always. Leviticus 23:10-11 “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. / And he shall wave the sheaf before the LORD so that it may be accepted on your behalf; the priest is to wave it on the day after the Sabbath. Numbers 18:12-13 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. / 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. Nehemiah 10:35-37 We will also bring the firstfruits of our land and of every fruit tree to the house of the LORD year by year. / And we will bring the firstborn of our sons and our livestock, as it is written in the Law, and will bring the firstborn of our herds and flocks to the house of our God, to the priests who minister in the house of our God. / Moreover, we will bring to the priests at the storerooms of the house of our God the firstfruits of our dough, of our grain offerings, of the fruit of all our trees, and of our new wine and oil. A tenth of our produce belongs to the Levites, so that they shall receive tithes in all the towns where we labor. Proverbs 3:9-10 Honor the LORD with your wealth and with the firstfruits of all your crops; / then your barns will be filled with plenty, and your vats will overflow with new wine. 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. Leviticus 2:12 You may bring them to the LORD as an offering of firstfruits, but they must not go up on the altar as a pleasing aroma. 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. Ezekiel 44:30 The best of all the firstfruits and of every contribution from all your offerings will belong to the priests. You are to give your first batch of dough to the priest, so that a blessing may rest upon your homes. Malachi 3:10 Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, so that there may be food in My house. Test Me in this,” says the LORD of Hosts. “See if I will not open the windows of heaven and pour out for you blessing without measure. Genesis 4:3-4 So in the course of time, Cain brought some of the fruit of the soil as an offering to the LORD, / while Abel brought the best portions of the firstborn of his flock. And the LORD looked with favor on Abel and his offering, Matthew 23:23 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You pay tithes of mint, dill, and cumin. But you have disregarded the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faithfulness. You should have practiced the latter, without neglecting the former. Luke 11:42 Woe to you Pharisees! For you pay tithes of mint, rue, and every herb, but you disregard justice and the love of God. You should have practiced the latter without neglecting the former. Romans 11:16 If the first part of the dough is holy, so is the whole batch; if the root is holy, so are the branches. Treasury of Scripture The first of the first fruits of your land you shall bring into the house of the LORD your God. You shall not seethe a kid in his mother's milk. first of the Exodus 22:29 Thou shalt not delay to offer the first of thy ripe fruits, and of thy liquors: the firstborn of thy sons shalt thou give unto me. 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. Leviticus 23:10-17 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come into the land which I give unto you, and shall reap the harvest thereof, then ye shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest unto the priest: … Thou shalt not seethe a kid. 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. Deuteronomy 14:21 Ye 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. Proverbs 12:10 A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast: but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel. Jump to Previous Beginning Best Boil Choice Choicest Cook First Firstfruits First-Fruits Fruits Goat Ground House Kid Milk Mother Mother's Seethe Soil YoungJump to Next Beginning Best Boil Choice Choicest Cook First Firstfruits First-Fruits Fruits Goat Ground House Kid Milk Mother Mother's Seethe Soil YoungExodus 23 1. Of slander, false witness, and partiality4. Of charitableness 6. Of justice in judgment 8. Of taking bribes 9. Of oppressing a stranger 10. Of the year of rest 12. Of the Sabbath 13. Of idolatry 14. Of the three feasts 18. Of the blood and the fat of the sacrifice 20. An angel is promised, with a blessing, if they obey him Bring the best of the firstfruits of your soil This phrase emphasizes the importance of offering the first and best of one's produce to God. The Hebrew word for "firstfruits" is "bikkurim," which refers to the initial yield of the harvest. In ancient Israel, this act was a demonstration of gratitude and acknowledgment of God's provision. The "best" signifies not just any portion, but the choicest part, reflecting a heart of worship and reverence. Historically, this practice was a communal event, often celebrated during the Feast of Weeks (Shavuot), reinforcing the community's dependence on and dedication to God. to the house of the LORD your God You must not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk The house of the Lord. Comp. Exodus 34:26 and Deuteronomy 23:18. It is known to Moses that the "place which God will choose to put his name there" is to be a "house," or "temple." Thou shalt not seethe a kid.--A fanciful exegesis connects the four precepts of Exodus 23:18-19 with the three feasts--the two of Exodus 23:18 with the Paschal festival, that concerning firstfruits in Exodus 23:19 with the feast of ingathering, and this concerning kids with the feast of tabernacles. To support this theory it is suggested that the command has reference to a superstitious practice customary at the close of the harvest--a kid being then boiled in its mother's milk with magic rites, and the milk used to sprinkle plantations, fields, and gardens, in order to render them more productive the next year. But Deuteronomy 14:21, which attaches the precept to a list of unclean meats, is sufficient to show that the kid spoken of was boiled to be eaten. The best explanation of the passage is that of Bochart (Hierozoic. pt. 1, bk. 2, Exo. 52), that there was a sort of cruelty in making the milk of the mother, intended for the kid's sustenance, the means of its destruction. . . . Verse 19. - Law of first-fruits. The first of the first-fruits may mean either "the best of the first-fruits" (see Numbers 18:12), or "the very first of each kind that is ripe" (ib, verse 13). On the tendency to delay, and not bring the very first, see the comment on Exodus 22:29. The house of the Lord. Generally, in the Pentateuch we have the periphrasis" the place which the Lord thy God shall choose to put his name there" (Deuteronomy 12:5, 11, 14; Deuteronomy 16:16; Deuteronomy 26:2, etc.); but here, and in Exodus 34:26, and again in Deuteronomy 23:18, this "place" is plainly declared to be a "house" or "temple." Law against seething a kid in the mother's milk. The outline of law put before the Israelites in the "Book of the Covenant" terminated with this remarkable prohibition. Its importance is shown -1. By its place here; and 2. By its being thrice repeated in the law of Moses (see Exodus 34:26; and Deuteronomy 14:21). Various explanations have been given of it; but none is saris-factory, except that which views it as "a protest against cruelty, and outraging the order of nature," more especially that peculiarly sacred portion of nature's order, the tender relation between parent and child, mother and suckling. No doubt the practice existed. Kids were thought to be most palatable when boiled in milk; and the mother's milk was frequently the readiest to obtain. But in this way the mother was made a sort of accomplice in the death of her child, which men were induced to kill on account of the flavour that her milk gave it. Reason has nothing to say against such a mode of preparing food, but feeling revolts from it; and the general sense of civilised mankind reechoes the precept, which is capable of a wide application - Thou shalt not seethe a kind in his mother's milk. CHAPTER 23:20-31 Hebrew Bringתָּבִ֕יא (tā·ḇî) Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - second person masculine singular Strong's 935: To come in, come, go in, go the best רֵאשִׁ֗ית (rê·šîṯ) Noun - feminine singular construct Strong's 7225: The first, in place, time, order, rank of the firstfruits בִּכּוּרֵי֙ (bik·kū·rê) Noun - masculine plural construct Strong's 1061: The first-fruits of the crop of your soil אַדְמָ֣תְךָ֔ (’aḏ·mā·ṯə·ḵā) Noun - feminine singular construct | second person masculine singular Strong's 127: Ground, land into the house בֵּ֖ית (bêṯ) Noun - masculine singular construct Strong's 1004: A house of the LORD יְהוָ֣ה (Yah·weh) Noun - proper - masculine singular Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel your God. אֱלֹהֶ֑יךָ (’ĕ·lō·he·ḵā) Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine singular Strong's 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative You must not לֹֽא־ (lō-) Adverb - Negative particle Strong's 3808: Not, no cook תְבַשֵּׁ֥ל (ṯə·ḇaš·šêl) Verb - Piel - Imperfect - second person masculine singular Strong's 1310: To boil up, cooking, to ripen a young goat גְּדִ֖י (gə·ḏî) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 1423: A kid (a young goat) in its mother’s אִמּֽוֹ׃ (’im·mōw) Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine singular Strong's 517: A mother, ) milk. בַּחֲלֵ֥ב (ba·ḥă·lêḇ) Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct Strong's 2461: Milk Links Exodus 23:19 NIVExodus 23:19 NLT Exodus 23:19 ESV Exodus 23:19 NASB Exodus 23:19 KJV Exodus 23:19 BibleApps.com Exodus 23:19 Biblia Paralela Exodus 23:19 Chinese Bible Exodus 23:19 French Bible Exodus 23:19 Catholic Bible OT Law: Exodus 23:19 The first of the first fruits (Exo. 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