Levitico 23:20

20 E offeriscali il sacerdote in offerta dimenata, davanti al Signore, insieme co’ pani delle primizie, e co’ due agnelli; sieno quelle cose sacre al Signore, per lo sacerdote.

Levitico 23:20 Meaning and Commentary

Leviticus 23:20

And the priests shall wave them with the bread of the
firstfruits
The two loaves called the two wave loaves, ( Leviticus 23:17 ) ; with which were waved the two lambs of the peace offerings; and these alive, as Jarchi and Ben Gersom intimate. The Jewish doctors

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FOOTNOTES:

F26 dispute, whether, in waving, the lambs were put above the bread, or the bread above the lambs; which some reconcile by observing, that the bread was put by the side of the lambs:

[for] a wave offering before the Lord;
being waved this way and that way, upwards and downwards, and towards the several quarters of the world, showing that the fruits of the earth were owing to the providential goodness of God everywhere:

with the two lambs;
not that all the above sacrifices were waved, or any part of them, along with the lambs, but the wave loaves, and they were waved together, as one wave offering to the Lord:

they shall be holy to the Lord for the priests;
both the loaves and the lambs, these were separated and devoted wholly to the Lord, and to be eaten by his priests; the peace offerings of a single person were light holy things, as Jarchi says; but the peace offerings of the congregation, as these were, are the most holy things, and so to be eaten only by the priests, and by the males only, in the court of the tabernacle.

F26 In Torat Cohenim, apud Yalkut in loc.

Levitico 23:20 In-Context

18 E con que’ pani offerite sette agnelli di un anno, senza difetto; e un giovenco, e due montoni; e sieno per olocausto al Signore, insieme con le loro offerte di panatica, e da spandere; per sacrificii da ardere, di soave odore al Signore.

19 Oltre a ciò, offerite un becco per sacrificio per lo peccato; e due agnelli di un anno per sacrificio da render grazie

20 E offeriscali il sacerdote in offerta dimenata, davanti al Signore, insieme co’ pani delle primizie, e co’ due agnelli; sieno quelle cose sacre al Signore, per lo sacerdote.

21 E in quell’istesso giorno bandite la festa; esso vi sia giorno di santa raunanza; non fate in esso alcuna opera servile. Quest’è uno statuto perpetuo in tutte le vostre abitazioni, per le vostre generazioni

22 E, quando voi mieterete la ricolta della vostra terra, non mietere affatto i canti del tuo campo, e non ispigolar le spighe della tua ricolta; lasciale al povero e al forestiere. Io sono il Signore Iddio vostro.