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26 Pentecost.[a]“ ‘On the day of the firstfruits,[b] when you bring a new cereal offering to the Lord for the Feast of Weeks, you are to have a holy assembly; you are not to do any heavy labor. 27 You will present a burnt offering as a pleasing fragrance to the Lord of two young bulls, one ram, and seven male year-old lambs 28 along with their grain offerings of fine flour mixed with oil: three-tenths of an ephah for each young bull, two-tenths of an ephah for each ram, 29 and a tenth of an ephah for each of the seven lambs, 30 along with one kid goat to make your atonement. 31 They are to be without defect.

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 28:26 Pentecost, which comes seven weeks after Passover, celebrates the harvest and commemorates God’s self-revelation on Sinai after the departure from Egypt (see Lev 23:15-21).
  2. Numbers 28:26 Day of the firstfruits: usually referred to as the Feast of Weeks.