19 “The best* of the first ripe fruits of your ground you are to bring to the house of Jehovah your God.+

“You must not boil a kid in its mother’s milk.+

20 YOU should make a contribution of the firstfruits+ of YOUR coarse meal as ring-shaped cakes. Like the contribution of a threshing floor is the way YOU should contribute it.

5 And as soon as the word broke forth, the sons of Israel+ increased the firstfruits of the grain,+ new wine,+ and oil+ and honey+ and all the produce of the field,+ and the tenth of everything they brought in abundantly.+

9 Honor Jehovah with your valuable things+ and with the firstfruits of all your produce.+

20 However, now Christ has been raised up from the dead,+ the firstfruits+ of those who have fallen asleep [in death].+

4 These are the ones that did not defile themselves with women;+ in fact, they are virgins.+ These are the ones that keep following the Lamb no matter where he goes.+ These were bought+ from among mankind as firstfruits+ to God and to the Lamb,