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.+

12 “All the best* of the oil and all the best of the new wine and the grain, their firstfruits,+ which they will give to Jehovah, I have given them to you.+

10 And now here I have brought the firstfruits of the fruitage of the ground that Jehovah has given me.’+

“You must also deposit it before Jehovah your God and bow down before Jehovah your God.+

4 Furthermore, he said to the people, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, to give the portion of the priests+ and of the Levites,+ in order that they might adhere+ strictly to the law of Jehovah.+

44 Further, there were appointed on that day men over the halls+ for the stores,+ for the contributions,+ for the firstfruits+ and for the tenths,*+ to gather into them out of* the fields of the cities the portions [called for by] the law+ for the priests and the Levites;+ for the rejoicing of Judah was because of the priests and of the Levites+ who were in attendance.