The next day after the seventh Sabbath you shall count fifty days; and you shall offer a new meal offering to Yahweh. You shall bring out of your habitations two loaves of bread for a wave offering made of two tenths of an ephah of fine flour. They shall be baked with yeast, for first fruits to Yahweh.
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“ ‘You shall count from the next day after the Sabbath, from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering: seven Sabbaths shall be completed. The next day after the seventh Sabbath you shall count fifty days; and you shall offer a new meal offering to Yahweh. You shall bring out of your habitations two loaves of bread for a wave offering made of two tenths of an ephah of fine flour. They shall be baked with yeast, for first fruits to Yahweh. You shall present with the bread seven lambs without defect a year old, one young bull, and two rams. They shall be a burnt offering to Yahweh, with their meal offering and their drink offerings, even an offering made by fire, of a sweet aroma to Yahweh. You shall offer one male goat for a sin offering, and two male lambs a year old for a sacrifice of peace offerings. The priest shall wave them with the bread of the first fruits for a wave offering before Yahweh, with the two lambs. They shall be holy to Yahweh for the priest. You shall make proclamation on the same day that there shall be a holy convocation to you. You shall do no regular work. This is a statute forever in all your dwellings throughout your generations.
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The next day after the seventh Sabbath you shall count fifty days; and you shall offer a new meal offering to Yahweh.
You shall bring out of your habitations two loaves of bread for a wave offering made of two tenths of an ephah of fine flour. They shall be baked with yeast, for first fruits to Yahweh.
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Even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall offer a new meat offering unto the LORD.
Ye shall bring out of your habitations two wave loaves of two tenth deals: they shall be of fine flour; they shall be baken with leaven; they are the firstfruits unto the LORD.
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even unto the morrow after the seventh week shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall present a new meal-offering unto the LORD.
Ye shall bring out of your dwellings two wave-loaves of two tenth parts of an ephah; they shall be of fine flour, they shall be baked with leaven, for first-fruits unto the LORD.
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Cross-references (20)
- Leviticus 23:10 (v17) “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…
- Acts 2:1 (v16) Now when the day of Pentecost had come, they were all with one accord in one place.
- Numbers 28:26 (vv16–17) “ ‘Also in the day of the first fruits, when you offer a new meal offering to Yahweh in your feast of weeks, you shall have a holy…
- Exodus 23:19 (v17) You shall bring the first of the first fruits of your ground into the house of Yahweh your God. “You shall not boil a young goat in its…
- Exodus 34:22 (v17) “You shall observe the feast of weeks with the first fruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of harvest at the year’s end.
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- Exodus 34:26 (v17) “You shall bring the first of the first fruits of your ground to the house of Yahweh your God. “You shall not boil a young goat in its…
- Leviticus 7:13 (v17) He shall offer his offering with the sacrifice of his peace offerings for thanksgiving with cakes of leavened bread.
- Exodus 22:29 (v17) “You shall not delay to offer from your harvest and from the outflow of your presses. “You shall give the firstborn of your sons to me.
- Exodus 23:16 (v17) And the feast of harvest, the first fruits of your labors, which you sow in the field; and the feast of ingathering, at the end of the…
- Leviticus 2:12 (v17) As an offering of first fruits you shall offer them to Yahweh, but they shall not rise up as a pleasant aroma on the altar.
- Numbers 15:17 (v17) Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
- Numbers 15:19-21 (v17) then it shall be that when you eat of the bread of the land, you shall offer up a wave offering to Yahweh. Of the first of your dough you…
- Deuteronomy 26:1-2 (v17) It shall be, when you have come in to the land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance, possess it, and dwell in it, that you…
- Proverbs 3:9-10 (v17) Honor Yahweh with your substance, with the first fruits of all your increase: so your barns will be filled with plenty, and your vats will…
- Matthew 13:33 (v17) He spoke another parable to them. “The Kingdom of Heaven is like yeast, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, until it was…
- Romans 8:23 (v17) Not only so, but ourselves also, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for adoption,…
- 1 Corinthians 15:20 (v17) But now Christ has been raised from the dead. He became the first fruits of those who are asleep.
- James 1:18 (v17) Of his own will he gave birth to us by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.
- Revelation 14:4 (v17) These are those who were not defiled with women, for they are virgins. These are those who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. These were…
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain On v17 Because the Priest should eat them, as Lev. 7:13,…
Because the Priest should eat them, as Lev. 7:13, and they should not be offered to the Lord upon the altar.
Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain.
John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain On vv16–17 Lev 23:16 Even unto the morrow after the seventh…
Lev 23:16 Even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall offer a new meat offering unto the LORD.
Ver. 16. Shall ye number fifty days.] And then keep the feast of Pentecost or of weeks, so called because it was seven weeks after the passover.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain On vv16–17 i.e. After seven weeks, or forty-nine days, the morrow…
i.e. After seven weeks, or forty-nine days, the morrow after which was the fiftieth day, called also pentecost.
A new meat offering, to wit, of new corn made into loaves, as it follows.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain On vv16–17 Even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath,.... Or…
Even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath,.... Or weeks, forty nine days being counted, the following was the fiftieth day, or Pentecost:
shall ye number fifty days; from whence this feast had the name of Pentecost, Act 2:1; all in Israel were obliged to number those days, except women and servants (t): the manner of doing it was this (u); on the night of the second (day of the passover), after the evening prayer, they began to number; but if anyone forgot to number at the beginning of the night, he went and numbered all the night; for the commandment is for everyone to number by himself, and he ought to number standing, and to bless first, and number the days and weeks: How? on the first day he says, This is one day, until he comes to seven days, and then he says, This is the seventh day, which is one week; and on the eighth day he says, This is the eighth day, which is one week and one day, and so till he comes to the fourteenth; then he says, This is the fourteenth day, which make two weeks; and in this way he numbers, and goes on until the forty ninth day: and ye shall offer a new meat offering unto the Lord; that is, of new corn, as the Targum of Jonathan and Jarchi explain it, and this was of wheat; for it was the offering for the wheat harvest, which was offered on the fiftieth day from the offering of the sheaf or omer of the barley harvest.
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(t) Maimon. Hilchot Tamidin Umusaphim, c. 7. sect. 24. (u) Schulchan Aruch, par. 1. c. 489. sect. 1. & Lebush, ut supra, (c. 489.) sect. 1.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain On v16 A new meal-offering - Of new corn made into…
A new meal-offering - Of new corn made into loaves.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain On v17 Lev 23:17. Two wave loaves of two tenth-deals —…
Lev 23:17. Two wave loaves of two tenth-deals — There was one tenth-deal in each loaf. They were called wave-loaves, because they were presented to God by waving them toward heaven. Baken with leaven — Contrary to the established law in other bread or flower offerings, Lev 2:11-12. The reason may be, that these first-fruits were a symbol of the leavened bread which the Israelites commonly used.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain On vv16–17 Sacrifice. Hebrew mincha, which relates to the offerings of…
Sacrifice. Hebrew mincha, which relates to the offerings of corn and liquors. Two loaves of wheaten flour leavened, were presented probably by the nation. This festival was instituted in memory of the law being given from Mount Sinai, which was a figure of the law of grace promulgated by the Holy Ghost and by the apostles, on the day of Pentecost. (Calmet)
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain On vv16–17 number fifty days--The forty-ninth day after the presentation of…
number fifty days--The forty-ninth day after the presentation of the first-fruits, or the fiftieth, including it, was the feast of Pentecost. (See also Exo 23:16; Deu 16:9).
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain On vv16–17 16. Morrow after the seventh sabbath — This is…
16. Morrow after the seventh sabbath — This is the morrow after the seventh week. Hence the feast beginning with this day was called the feast of weeks, until the use of the version of the Seventy had familiarized the Jews with the word πεντηκοστη, pentecost, fiftieth. It is called pentecost first in the Apocrypha, (Tob_2:1,) and always in the New Testament. It is to be noticed that it was just fifty days utter the exode that the law was given on Sinai. The Scriptures nowhere say that this feast is in commemoration of that important event. For the opinions of Jewish and Christian writers. see note on Act_2:1.
A new meat offering — This is mentioned before the burnt offering, to give prominence to the agricultural reference of this festival, significantly called “the firstfruits of the wheat-harvest.” Exo_34:22.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain On v17 17. wave loaves] See Appendix IV, pp. 183 ff.
17. wave loaves] See Appendix IV, pp. 183 ff.
tenth parts] A.V. ‘tenth deals,’ and so in Lev_23:13. With the exception of these vv. the expression is peculiar to P, denoting the measure of fine flour used in a Meal-Offering. For the word ‘deals’ see on Lev_14:10.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain On vv16–17 (16) Even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath.—That…
(16) Even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath.—That is, the day after the seven complete weeks, or the fiftieth day. Hence its name, “Pentecost, or fiftieth-day” feast in the New Testament (Act_2:1; Act_20:16; 1Co_16:8), and “feast of weeks” in the Old Testament (Exo_34:12; Deu_16:10; Deu_16:16; 2Ch_8:13). The fiftieth day, according to the Jewish canons, may fall on the 5th, 6th, or 7th of Sivan, the third month of the year, i.e., from the new moon of May to the new moon of June.
Shall offer a new meat offering.—That is, of the first-fruits of the wheat-harvest in contradistinction to the omer first-fruits, which was of barley-harvest. Hence this festival is also called “the feast of harvest” (Exo_23:16), because it concluded the harvest of the later grain.
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C. I. Scofield 1917 · Public Domain On vv16–17 fifty days
fifty days
The feast of Pentecost, Lev 23:15-22. The anti-type is the descent of the Holy Spirit to form the church. For this reason leaven is present, because there is evil in the church; Mat 13:33; Act 5:1; Act 5:10; Act 15:1. Observe, it is now loaves; not a sheaf of separate growths loosely bound together, but a real union of particles making one homogenous body. The descent of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost united the separated disciples into one organism.; 1Co 10:16; 1Co 10:17; 1Co 12:12; 1Co 12:13; 1Co 12:20.
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On v17 General Information:
General Information:
Yahweh continues telling Moses what the people must do.
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made from two-tenths of an ephah. They must be made from fine flour and baked with yeast
This can be stated in active form. AT: "that you have made from two-tenths of an ephah of flour and then baked with yeast" (See: Active or Passive)
two-tenths of an ephah
This is approximately 4.5 liters. AT: "four and a half liters" (See: Biblical Volume)
producing a sweet aroma for Yahweh
The Lord's pleasure with the aroma represents his pleasure with the person who burns the offering. AT: "Yahweh will be pleased with you" or "that pleases the Yahweh" (See: Metaphor)
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yeast
firstfruits
cow
ewe
grain offering
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