It begins with the earliest manifestations of what will hopefully be a bountiful harvest. The farmer is commanded to select and pick just some of the best of the early produce of grapes, figs and pomegranates or any of the other remaining types of grain or fruits comprising the Seven Species native to Israel and bring them to Jerusalem to gift to the Kohen then serving there, as outlined below.

The introductory verse speaks of the time when the Jewish people come to Israel to inherit the land that G-d gave them as their inheritance. They are commanded to posses and develop it. They are then to take some of the first fruits yielded by and harvested from this land that G-d vested in the Jewish people and place it in a basket. This unique commandment does not apply to any land owned outside of Israel.

The farmer is then to take the basket of fruit and bring it to the place of the Beit HaMikdash (Holy Temple) in Jerusalem and go to the Kohen then serving there and loudly declare that day to Hashem, I have come to the land that Hashem swore to our Patriarchs to vest in us.