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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.

The Presentation of Firstfruits

The Lord spoke to Moses: 10 “Speak to the Israelites and tell them, ‘When you enter the land that I am about to give to you and you gather in its harvest,[a] then you must bring the sheaf of the first portion of your harvest[b] to the priest, 11 and he must wave the sheaf before the Lord to be accepted for your benefit[c]—on the day after the Sabbath the priest is to wave it.[d] 12 On the day you wave the sheaf you must also offer[e] a flawless yearling lamb[f] for a burnt offering to the Lord, 13 along with its grain offering, two-tenths of an ephah of[g] choice wheat flour[h] mixed with olive oil, as a gift to the Lord, a soothing aroma,[i] and its drink offering, one-fourth of a hin of wine.[j] 14 You must not eat bread, roasted grain, or fresh grain until this very day,[k] until you bring the offering to your God. This is a perpetual statute throughout your generations[l] in all the places where you live.

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Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 23:10 tn Heb “and you harvest its harvest.”
  2. Leviticus 23:10 tn Heb “the sheaf of the first of your harvest.”
  3. Leviticus 23:11 tn Heb “for your acceptance.”
  4. Leviticus 23:11 sn See Lev 7:30 for a note on the “waving” of a “wave offering.”
  5. Leviticus 23:12 tn Heb “And you shall make in the day of your waving the sheaf.”
  6. Leviticus 23:12 tn Heb “a flawless lamb, a son of its year”; KJV “of the first year”; NLT “a year-old male lamb.”
  7. Leviticus 23:13 sn See the note on Lev 5:11.
  8. Leviticus 23:13 sn See the note on Lev 2:1.
  9. Leviticus 23:13 sn See the note on Lev 1:9.
  10. Leviticus 23:13 tn Heb “wine, one-fourth of the hin.” A pre-exilic hin is about 3.6 liters (= ca. 1 gallon), so one-fourth of a hin would be about 1 quart (1 liter).
  11. Leviticus 23:14 tn Heb “until the bone of this day.”
  12. Leviticus 23:14 tn Heb “for your generations.”