Leviticus 2:14

Gratitude

¹² You may bring them to the LORD as an offering of firstfruits, but they are not to be offered on the altar as a pleasing aroma.

¹³ And you shall season each of your grain offerings with salt. You must not leave the salt of the covenant of your God out of your grain offering; you are to add salt to each of your offerings.

If you bring a grain offering of firstfruits to the LORD, you shall offer crushed heads of new grain roasted on the fire.

¹⁵ And you are to put oil and frankincense on it; it is a grain offering.

¹⁶ The priest shall then burn the memorial portion of the crushed grain and the oil, together with all its frankincense, as an offering made by fire to the LORD.

This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB: If you bring a grain offering of firstfruits to the LORD, you shall offer crushed heads of new grain roasted on the fire.
KJV: And if thou offer a meat offering of thy firstfruits unto the LORD, thou shalt offer for the meat offering of thy firstfruits green ears of corn dried by the fire, even corn beaten out of full ears.
WEB: “‘If you offer a meal offering of first fruits to the LORD, you shall offer for the meal offering of your first fruits fresh heads of grain parched with fire and crushed.
ASV: And if thou offer a meal-offering of first-fruits unto Jehovah, thou shalt offer for the meal-offering of thy first-fruits grain in the ear parched with fire, bruised grain of the fresh ear.
DARBY: And if thou present an oblation of thy first-fruits to Jehovah, thou shalt present as the oblation of thy first-fruits green ears of corn roasted in fire, corn beaten out of full ears.
BLB: And if you bring near a grain offering of firstfruits to YHWH, you shall bring near heads of new grain roasted on the fire, crushed grain from full heads [for] a grain offering of your firstfruits.

ÅB: Dersom du vil ofre et matoffer av førstegrøden til Herren, så skal du ofre aks som er ristet over ilden, nyhøstet korn som er knust; det skal være ditt matoffer av førstegrøden.
OTB: ‘Hvis du bærer fram et grødeoffer av førstegrøden til Herren, skal du ofre knuste aks av ny korn ristet i ilden.
B1930: Dersom du vil ofre et matoffer av førstegrøden til Herren, så skal du ofre aks som er ristet over ilden, nyhøstet korn som er knust; det skal være ditt matoffer av førstegrøden.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Leviticus 23:10
“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.
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Proverbs 3:9–10
Honor the LORD with your wealth and with the firstfruits of all your harvest;
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Numbers 28:2
“Command the Israelites and say to them: See that you present to Me at its appointed time the food for My offerings by fire, as a pleasing aroma to Me.
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Revelation 14:4
These are the ones who have not been defiled with women, for they are virgins. They follow the Lamb wherever He goes. They have been redeemed from among men as firstfruits to God and to the Lamb.
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Isaiah 53:2–10
He grew up before Him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground. He had no stately form or majesty to attract us, no beauty that we should desire Him.
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1 Corinthians 15:20
But Christ has indeed been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.
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Malachi 1:11
For My name will be great among the nations, from where the sun rises to where it sets. In every place, incense and pure offerings will be presented in My name, because My name will be great among the nations,” says the LORD of Hosts.
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2 Kings 4:42
Now a man from Baal-shalishah came to the man of God with a sack of twenty loaves of barley bread from the first ripe grain. “Give it to the people to eat,” said Elisha.
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