Firstfruits בִּכּוּרִים

About this episode

This episode discusses the concept of firstfruits in the context of Exodus and its significance in the Old Testament.

We are in chapter thirty-four of Exodus with our word for today. בִּכּוּרִים first-fruits. It is used 17 times in the Old Testament. Our word is used in the sense of the first fruit of a harvest or season. A good example of this is when the spies went in to check out the promised land and Nahum’s prophecy. Numbers 13:20 Now the time was the season of the בִּכּוּרֵ֥י first ripe grapes … And they came to the Valley of Eshcol and cut down from there a branch with a single cluster of grapes. Nahu...

People in this episode

Host: Mike

Topics covered

• firstfruits
• Exodus
• Old Testament
• harvest
• spirituality

Keywords

• firstfruits
• Exodus 34
• Nahum
• Old Testament
• harvest
• spirituality
• grapes

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Exodus, Numbers

Places: Valley of Eshcol

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