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New Meal Offerings

15 “Starting the day after the Sabbath, count for yourselves seven weeks from the day you brought the sheaf of the wave offering. They are to be complete. 16 Count fifty days to the day after the seventh Sabbath, then bring a new meal offering to the Lord. 17 Bring two loaves[a] of bread from home as wave offerings made from two tenths of fine flour baked with leaven as first fruits to the Lord. 18 Along with the loaves of bread, bring seven lambs (each of them[b] one year old and without defect), one young bull as an offering, and two rams as offerings to the Lord—along with your gift and drink offerings—and present them as an offering made by fire, a pleasing aroma to the Lord. 19 Prepare one male goat for a sin offering and two one year old rams for peace offerings. 20 Then the priest is to wave them—the two lambs with the bread of first fruits—as raised offerings in the Lord’s presence. They’ll be sacred to the Lord on account of the priest.

21 “On the same day, proclaim a sacred assembly for yourselves. You are not to do any servile work—and this is to be an eternal ordinance wherever you live throughout your generations. 22 Furthermore, when you harvest the produce of your land, you are not to harvest all the way to the corners of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest. Leave them for the poor and resident alien. I am the Lord your God.”

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Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 23:17 The Heb. lacks loaves
  2. Leviticus 23:18 The Heb. lacks each of them

The Feast of Weeks

15 “‘And you shall count for yourselves from the day after[a] the Sabbath, from the day of your bringing the wave offering’s sheaf—there shall be seven full weeks. 16 Until the day after[b] the seventh Sabbath you shall count fifty days; then[c] you shall present a new grain offering for Yahweh. 17 You shall bring from your dwellings for a wave offering two loaves of bread made with[d] two-tenths of an ephah[e] of finely milled flour; they must be baked with leaven—the firstfruits belonging to[f] Yahweh. 18 And, in addition to the bread, you shall present seven yearling[g] male lambs without defects and one young bull[h] and two rams—they shall be a burnt offering for Yahweh with[i] their grain offering and their libations, an offering made by fire, an appeasing fragrance for Yahweh. 19 And you shall offer[j] one he-goat as a sin offering and two yearling[k] male lambs as a sacrifice of fellowship offerings. 20 And the priest shall wave them with the bread of the firstfruits as a wave offering before[l] Yahweh; in addition to the two male lambs, they shall be holy for Yahweh for the priest. 21 And you shall make a proclamation[m] on this very same day;[n] it shall be a holy assembly for you; you shall not do any regular work;[o] this is a lasting statute[p] in all your dwellings throughout[q] your generations. 22 And when you[r] reap the harvest of your[s] land, you[t] must not finish the edge of your[u] field at your reaping, and you[v] must not glean the remnants of your[w] harvest—you[x] shall leave them behind for the needy and for the alien; I am Yahweh your[y] God.’”

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Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 23:15 Literally “from the next day of”
  2. Leviticus 23:16 Literally “from the next day of”
  3. Leviticus 23:16 Or “and”
  4. Leviticus 23:17 Literally “they shall be”
  5. Leviticus 23:17 Supplied by context
  6. Leviticus 23:17 Literally “to”
  7. Leviticus 23:18 Literally “a son of its year”
  8. Leviticus 23:18 Literally “a bull a son of cattle”
  9. Leviticus 23:18 Or “and”
  10. Leviticus 23:19 Or “sacrifice”; literally “do” or “make”
  11. Leviticus 23:19 Literally “a son of its year”
  12. Leviticus 23:20 Literally “to the faces of”
  13. Leviticus 23:21 Literally “you shall proclaim”
  14. Leviticus 23:21 Literally “the exactly of this day”
  15. Leviticus 23:21 Literally “all work of labor”
  16. Leviticus 23:21 Literally “a statute of eternity” or “a statute of long duration”
  17. Leviticus 23:21 Or “for”
  18. Leviticus 23:22 Plural
  19. Leviticus 23:22 Plural
  20. Leviticus 23:22 Singular
  21. Leviticus 23:22 Singular
  22. Leviticus 23:22 Singular
  23. Leviticus 23:22 Singular
  24. Leviticus 23:22 Singular
  25. Leviticus 23:22 Plural