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Ezekiel 44 describes priestly rights to offerings and links the giving of first fruits to household blessing. The Greek Septuagint translation adds detail to this, trying to harmonize Ezekiel with Deuteronomy and Leviticus.
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Ezekiel 44:30

Hebrew Bible
29 They may eat the grain offering, the sin offering, and the guilt offering, and every devoted thing in Israel will be theirs. 30 The first of all the firstfruits and all contributions of any kind will be for the priests; you will also give to the priest the first portion of your dough, so that a blessing may rest on your house. 31 The priests will not eat any bird or animal that has died a natural death or was torn to pieces by a wild animal.
Date: 600–501 BCE (based on scholarly estimates)

LXX Ezekiel 44:30

Septuagint
29 And these shall eat the grain-offerings, and the sin-offerings, and the trespass-offerings; and every special offering in Israel shall be theirs. 30 And the first fruits of all things, and the firstborn of all animals and all offerings, of all your first fruits there shall be a share for the priests; and you shall give your earliest produce to the priest, to bring your blessings upon your houses. 31 And the priests shall eat no bird or beast that dies of itself, or is taken of wild beasts.
Date: 100–1 BCE (based on scholarly estimates)
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Notes and References

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"... Harmonizing with Torah was an issue in early Jewish literature since the Chronicles. Orientation towards Torah was a common issue in early Jewish literature (compare Tobit 6:13; Tobit 1:8; Baruch 4:4; Sirach 19:19; 24). Within the Septuagint, Torah-orientation is to be seen in the term ἀνοµία which is used as rendering for 20 Hebrew words, for רשע (Ezekiel 3:19; Psalm 5:4; Micah 6:10), חמס (Ezekiel 7:23), תסועבה (Ezekiel 8:6, 9), and πρόσταγµα as rendering of דבר in Daniel 9:12. Torah-oriented harmonization is to be found in Isaiah 1:16; 3:20; an addition clarifying the woe on the dispraisers is made in Isaiah 24:16 (ἀθετοῦντες τὸν νόµον). In Jeremiah 19:15, דברי is rendered by ἐντολαί. Within the book of Ezekiel, the commandments on the first-fruits (Ezekiel 44:30) are harmonized with Deuteronomy 12:6, 17, the commandments on the tributes fore offering are harmonized with Deuteronomy 14:23; Leviticus 27:32; further, Ezekiel 46:14 avoids any antagonism to Exodus 29:38–42; Numbers 28:3–8. In Daniel 12:3, the reading οἱ κατισχύοντες τοὺς λόγους µου (“those who strengthen my words” instead of “those who lead the many to righteousness”) may have a counterpart in the Hebrew Vorlage ..."
Martin Meiser, The Septuagint and Its Reception: Collected Essays (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2022), 101–102.

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