Lexicon :: Strong's G536 - aparchē

“You must not hold back offerings from your harvest or your vats. Give me the firstborn of your sons.

“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.

“Tell the Israelites to take an offering for me. You are to take my offering from everyone who is willing to give.

“Take up an offering among you for the LORD. Let everyone whose heart is willing bring this as the LORD’s offering: gold, silver, and bronze;

After Moses gave an order, they sent a proclamation throughout the camp: “Let no man or woman make anything else as an offering for the sanctuary.” So the people stopped.

All the gold of the presentation offering that was used for the project in all the work on the sanctuary, was 2,193 pounds,[fn] according to the sanctuary shekel.

“You may present them to the LORD as an offering of firstfruits, but they are not to be offered on the altar as a pleasing aroma.

“If the priest’s daughter is married to a man outside a priest’s family,[fn] she is not to eat from the holy contributions.[fn]

“Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When you enter the land I am giving you and reap its harvest,[fn] you are to bring the first sheaf of your harvest to the priest.

“Every holy contribution the Israelites present to the priest will be his.

“You are to offer a loaf from your first batch of dough as a contribution; offer it just like a contribution from the threshing floor.

Then the LORD spoke to Aaron, “Look, I have put you in charge of the contributions brought to me. As for all the holy offerings of the Israelites, I have given them to you and your sons as a portion and a permanent statute.

“The contribution of their gifts also belongs to you. I have given all the Israelites’ presentation offerings to you and to your sons and daughters as a permanent statute. Every ceremonially clean person in your house may eat it.

“You must present the entire offering due the LORD from all your gifts. The best part of the tenth is to be consecrated.

“You will not incur guilt because of it once you have presented the best part of it, but you must not defile the Israelites’ holy offerings, so that you will not die.”

“Take the tribute from their half and give it to the priest Eleazar as a contribution to the LORD.

“You are to bring there your burnt offerings and sacrifices, your tenths and personal contributions,[fn] your vow offerings and freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks.

“then the LORD your God will choose the place to have his name dwell. Bring there everything I command you: your burnt offerings, sacrifices, offerings of the tenth, personal contributions,[fn] and all your choice offerings you vow to the LORD.

“Within your city gates you may not eat the tenth of your grain, new wine, or fresh oil; the firstborn of your herd or flock; any of your vow offerings that you pledge; your freewill offerings; or your personal contributions.[fn]

“You are to give him the firstfruits of your grain, new wine, and fresh oil, and the first sheared wool of your flock.

“take some of the first of all the land’s produce that you harvest from the land the LORD your God is giving you and put it in a basket. Then go to the place where the LORD your God chooses to have his name dwell.

“I have now brought the first of the land’s produce that you, LORD, have given me.

You will then place the container before the LORD your God and bow down to him.

He chose the best part for himself,

because a ruler’s portion was assigned there for him.

He came with the leaders of the people;

he carried out the LORD’s justice

and his ordinances for Israel.

“Why, then, do all of you despise my sacrifices and offerings that I require at the place of worship? You have honored your sons more than me, by making yourselves fat with the best part of all of the offerings of my people Israel.’

“They will ask how you are and give you two loaves[fn] of bread, which you will accept from them.

Mountains of Gilboa,

let no dew or rain be on you,

or fields of offerings,[fn]

for there the shield of the mighty was defiled —

the shield of Saul, no longer anointed with oil.

When the word spread, the Israelites gave liberally of the best of the grain, new wine, fresh oil, honey, and of all the produce of the field, and they brought in an abundance, a tenth of everything.

The chief priest Azariah, of the household of Zadok, answered him, “Since they began bringing the offering to the LORD’s temple, we have been eating and are satisfied and there is plenty left over because the LORD has blessed his people; this abundance is what is left over.”

The offering, the tenth, and the dedicated things were brought faithfully. Conaniah the Levite was the officer in charge of them, and his brother Shimei was second.

Kore son of Imnah the Levite, the keeper of the East Gate, was over the freewill offerings to God to distribute the contribution to the LORD and the consecrated things.

I weighed out to them the silver, the gold, and the articles ​— ​the contribution for the house of our God that the king, his counselors, his leaders, and all the Israelites who were present had offered.

We will bring a loaf from our first batch of dough to the priests at the storerooms of the house of our God. We will also bring the firstfruits of our grain offerings, of every fruit tree, and of the new wine and fresh oil. A tenth of our land’s produce belongs to the Levites, for the Levites are to collect the one-tenth offering in all our agricultural towns.

For the Israelites and the Levites are to bring the contributions of grain, new wine, and fresh oil to the storerooms where the articles of the sanctuary are kept and where the priests who minister are, along with the gatekeepers and singers. We will not neglect the house of our God.

On that same day men were placed in charge of the rooms that housed the supplies, contributions, firstfruits, and tenths. The legally required portions for the priests and Levites were gathered from the village fields, because Judah was grateful to the priests and Levites who were serving.

and had prepared a large room for him where they had previously stored the grain offerings, the frankincense, the articles, and the tenths of grain, new wine, and fresh oil prescribed for the Levites, singers, and gatekeepers, along with the contributions for the priests.

He struck all the firstborn in Egypt,

the first progeny of the tents of Ham.

He struck all the firstborn in their land,

all their first progeny.

“When you offer your gifts, sacrificing your children in the fire,[fn] you still continue to defile yourselves with all your idols today. So should I let you inquire of me, house of Israel? As I live ​— ​this is the declaration of the Lord GOD ​— ​I will not let you inquire of me!

“For on my holy mountain, Israel’s high mountain ​— ​the declaration of the Lord GOD ​— ​there the entire house of Israel, all of them, will serve me in the land. There I will accept them and will require your contributions and choicest gifts, all your holy offerings.

“The best of all the firstfruits of every kind and contribution of every kind from all your gifts will belong to the priests. You are to give your first batch of dough to the priest so that a blessing may rest on your homes.

“When you divide the land by lot as an inheritance, set aside a donation to the LORD, a holy portion of the land, 8 ¹/₃ miles[fn] long and 6 ²/₃ miles[fn] wide. This entire region will be holy.

“As the property of the city, set aside an area 1 ²/₃ miles[fn] wide and 8 ¹/₃ miles long, adjacent to the holy donation of land. It will be for the whole house of Israel.

“This is the contribution you are to offer: Three quarts[fn] from six bushels[fn] of wheat and[fn] three quarts from six bushels of barley.

“All the people of the land must take part in this contribution for the prince in Israel.

“Next to the territory of Judah, from the east side to the west, will be the portion you donate to the LORD, 8 ¹/₃ miles[fn] wide, and as long as one of the tribal portions from the east side to the west. The sanctuary will be in the middle of it.