¹⁰ “Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘When you enter the land I am going to give you^(A) and you reap its harvest,^(B) bring to the priest a sheaf^(C) of the first grain you harvest.^(D)

¹¹ He is to wave the sheaf before the Lord^(A) so it will be accepted^(B) on your behalf; the priest is to wave it on the day after the Sabbath.

³ and say to the priest in office at the time, “I declare today to the Lord your God that I have come to the land the Lord swore to our ancestors to give us.”

⁴ The priest shall take the basket from your hands and set it down in front of the altar of the Lord your God.