Leviticus 23:8-18

8 You are to present a fire offering to the Lord for seven days. On the seventh day there will be a sacred assembly; you must not do any daily work."

9 The Lord spoke to Moses:

10 "Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When you enter the land I am giving you and reap its harvest,^[a] you are to bring the first sheaf of your harvest to the priest.

11 He will wave the sheaf before the Lord so that you may be accepted; 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 year-old male lamb^[b] without blemish as a burnt offering to the Lord.

13 Its grain offering is to be four quarts^[c] of fine flour mixed with oil as a fire offering to the Lord, a pleasing aroma, and its drink offering will be one quart^[d] of wine.

14 You must not eat bread, roasted grain, or [any] new grain^[e] until this very day, and you have brought the offering of your God. This is to be a permanent statute throughout your generations wherever you live.

15 "You are to count seven^[f] complete weeks^{[g] [h]} starting from the day after the Sabbath, the day you brought the sheaf of the presentation offering.^[i]

16 You are to count 50 days until the day after the seventh Sabbath and then present an offering of new grain^[j] to the Lord.

17 Bring two loaves of bread from your settlements as a presentation offering, each of them made from four quarts^[k] of fine flour, baked with yeast, as firstfruits to the Lord.

18 You are to present with the bread seven unblemished male lambs a year old, one young bull, and two rams. They will be a burnt offering to the Lord, with their grain offerings and drink offerings, a fire offering of a pleasing aroma to the Lord.

Leviticus 23:8-18 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO LEVITICUS 23

In this chapter an account is given of the several holy days, times, and seasons, appointed by God, under the general names of feasts and holy convocations; and first of the sabbath, Le 23:1-4; then of the passover and feast of unleavened bread, Le 23:5-8; to which is annexed the sheaf of the firstfruits, Le 23:9-14; after that of the feast of weeks or pentecost, Le 23:15-22; and of the feast of trumpets, Le 23:23-25; and of the day of atonement, Le 23:26-32; and of the feast of tabernacles, Le 23:33-44.

Footnotes

• [a] The barley harvest
• [b] Or a male lamb in its first year
• [c] Lit two-tenths [of an ephah]
• [d] Lit one-fourth of a hin
• [e] Grain or bread from the new harvest
• [f] Lit count; they will be seven
• [g] Or Sabbaths
• [h] Ex 34:22; Nm 28:26; Dt 16:10; Ac 2:1
• [i] Lv 23:11
• [j] From the wheat harvest; Ex 34:22
• [k] Lit two-tenths [of an ephah]