Deuteronomy 18:4

The firstfruit [also] of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thine oil, and the first of the fleece of thy sheep, shalt thou give him.

Ver. 4. The firstfruits also.] Pliny tells us, a that among the Romans also no man might taste of his own corn, wine, or other fruits, priusquam Sacerdotes primitias libassent, till the priests had offered the firstfruits, and made their use of them.

a Plin., Hist., lib. xviii.