Nehemiah 10:35

35 And to bring the first-fruits of our ground, and the first-fruits of all fruit of all trees, year by year, to the house of the LORD:

Nehemiah 10:35 Meaning and Commentary

Nehemiah 10:35

And to bring the firstfruits of our ground
Not that they cast lots to do this, but they bound themselves with an oath, according to the law, to do it; this is the first of all the fruits of the earth, ( Exodus 23:19 ) , though Aben Ezra restrains it to the sheaf of the firstfruits, and to the two wave loaves, ( Leviticus 23:10 Leviticus 23:17 ) ,

and the firstfruits of all fruit of all trees;
which, as Aben Ezra observes, their wise men restrain to the seven kinds only mentioned in ( Deuteronomy 8:8 ) .

Nehemiah 10:35 In-Context

33 For the show-bread, and for the continual meat-offering, and for the continual burnt-offering, of the sabbaths, of the new moons, for the set feasts, and for the holy [things], and for the sin-offerings to make an atonement for Israel, and [for] all the work of the house of our God.

34 And we cast the lots among the priests, the Levites, and the people, for the wood-offering, to bring [it] into the house of our God, after the houses of our fathers, at times appointed year by year, to burn upon the altar of the LORD our God, as [it is] written in the law:

35 And to bring the first-fruits of our ground, and the first-fruits of all fruit of all trees, year by year, to the house of the LORD:

36 Also the first-born of our sons, and of our cattle, as [it is] written in the law, and the firstlings of our herds and of our flocks, to bring to the house of our God, to the priests that minister in the house of our God:

37 And [that] we should bring the first-fruits of our dough, and our offerings, and the fruit of all manner of trees, of wine and of oil, to the priests, to the chambers of the house of our God; and the tithes of our ground to the Levites, that the same Levites might have the tithes in all the cities of our tillage.