Tosefta for Bikkurim 1:10
וְאֵלּוּ מְבִיאִין וְקוֹרִין, מִן הָעֲצֶרֶת וְעַד הֶחָג, מִשִּׁבְעַת הַמִּינִים, מִפֵּרוֹת שֶׁבֶּהָרִים, מִתְּמָרוֹת שֶׁבָּעֲמָקִים, וּמִזֵּיתֵי שֶׁמֶן, מֵעֵבֶר הַיַּרְדֵּן. רַבִּי יוֹסֵי הַגְּלִילִי אוֹמֵר, אֵין מְבִיאִין בִּכּוּרִים מֵעֵבֶר הַיַּרְדֵּן, שֶׁאֵינָהּ אֶרֶץ זָבַת חָלָב וּדְבָשׁ:
These are brought and recited over: [fruit] from <i>Shavuot</i> until <i>Sukkot</i>, from the seven species, from fruit in the mountains, from dates in the valleys, from oil-olives [even from] on the other side of the Jordan River. Rabbi Yose the Galilean says, we do not bring first fruits from the other side of the Jordan since it is not "the land flowing with milk and honey" [that the verse describes].
Tosefta Demai
One who purchases from a poor person, and so too a poor person to whom they gave slices of bread or figs, he takes tithes from each and every one. With [respect to] dates grown in the valleys (Bikkurim 1:10), he tithes from one on behalf of everything. In other places [where the dates are of lower quality], he takes tithes from each and every one. With [respect to] figs in years of satisfaction (see above) he takes tithes from one on behalf of everything, but in the other years he tithes each and every one.
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