firstfruits

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firstfruits - Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary :

  First-fruits
  The first-fruits of the ground were offered unto God just as the
  first-born of man and animals.
  
    The law required, (1.) That on the morrow after the Passover
  Sabbath a sheaf of new corn should be waved by the priest before
  the altar (Lev. 23:5, 6, 10, 12; 2:12).
  
    (2.) That at the feast of Pentecost two loaves of leavened
  bread, made from the new flour, were to be waved in like manner
  (Lev. 23:15, 17; Num. 28:26).
  
    (3.) The feast of Tabernacles was an acknowledgement that the
  fruits of the harvest were from the Lord (Ex. 23:16; 34:22).
  
    (4.) Every individual, besides, was required to consecrate to
  God a portion of the first-fruits of the land (Ex. 22:29; 23:19;
  34:26; Num. 15:20, 21).
  
    (5.) The law enjoined that no fruit was to be gathered from
  newly-planted fruit-trees for the first three years, and that
  the first-fruits of the fourth year were to be consecrated to
  the Lord (Lev. 19:23-25). Jeremiah (2:3) alludes to the
  ordinance of "first-fruits," and hence he must have been
  acquainted with the books of Exodus, Leviticus, and Numbers,
  where the laws regarding it are recorded.