Holy Scripture
Numbers 15:20
A church father on this verse
“The holy movements of our senses, which are according to virtues, themselves are the firstfruits of a spiritual ark: therefore they are likened to a rural ark, in which the corn is winnowed. For just as wheat and barley are separated from the chaff when threshed in this rural area and, as they are repeatedly winnowed,…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
20Ye shall offer your bread a heave offering: as a heave offering from the threshing floor, so shall ye separate it,
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In context
18Speak to the sons of Israel, and thou shalt say to them, When ye are entering into the land, into which I bring you,
19then it shall come to pass, when ye shall eat of the bread of the land, ye shall separate a wave offering, a special offering to the Lord, the firstfruits of your dough.
— Numbers 15:20 —
21even the firstfruits of your dough, and ye shall give the Lord a heave offering throughout your generations.
22But whensoever ye shall transgress, and not perform all these commands, which the Lord spoke to Moses;