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Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, 10 “Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘When you have come into the land which I give to you, and shall reap its harvest, then you shall bring the sheaf of the first fruits of your harvest to the priest. 11 He shall wave the sheaf before Yahweh, to be accepted for you. On the next day after the Sabbath the priest shall wave it. 12 On the day when you wave the sheaf, you shall offer a male lamb without defect a year old for a burnt offering to Yahweh. 13 The meal offering with it shall be two tenths of an ephah[a] of fine flour mixed with oil, an offering made by fire to Yahweh for a pleasant aroma; and the drink offering with it shall be of wine, the fourth part of a hin.[b] 14 You must not eat bread, or roasted grain, or fresh grain, until this same day, until you have brought the offering of your God. This is a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

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Footnotes

  1. 23:13 1 ephah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel
  2. 23:13 A hin is about 6.5 liters or 1.7 gallons.

First Fruit Offerings

The Lord told Moses, 10 “Tell the Israelis that when you enter the land that I’m about to give you and gather its produce, you are to bring a sheaf from the first portion of your harvest to the priest, 11 who will offer the sheaf in the Lord’s presence for your acceptance. The priest is to wave it on the day after the Sabbath. 12 On the day you wave the sheaf, you are to offer a one year old male lamb without defect for a burnt offering in the Lord’s presence. 13 Also present a meal offering of two tenths of a measure of[a] fine flour mixed with olive oil as an offering made by fire to the Lord, a pleasing aroma. Now as to a drink offering, you are to present a fourth of a hin[b] of wine. 14 You are not to eat bread, parched grain, or fresh grain until that day[c] when you’ve brought the offering of your God. This is to be[d] an eternal ordinance throughout your generations, wherever you live.”

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Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 23:13 The unit of measurement is not specified in MT, but cf. Lev. 5:11, 6:20.
  2. Leviticus 23:13 I.e. about one quart; the hin was equivalent to about one gallon
  3. Leviticus 23:14 Lit. grain until the bone of this day
  4. Leviticus 23:14 The Heb. lacks This is to be