Leviticus 23:9–21

Offering the Firstfruits

⁹The Lord said to Moses, ¹⁰“Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘When you enter the land I am going to give you^m and you reap its harvest,ⁿ bring to the priest a sheaf^o of the first grain you harvest.^{p 11}He is to wave the sheaf before the Lord^q so it will be accepted^r on your behalf; the priest is to wave it on the day after the Sabbath. ¹²On the day you wave the sheaf, you must sacrifice as a burnt offering to the Lord a lamb a year old^s without defect,^{t 13}together with its grain offering^u of two-tenths of an ephah^av of the finest flour mixed with olive oil—a food offering presented to the Lord, a pleasing aroma—and its drink offering^w of a quarter of a hin^b of wine.^{x 14}You must not eat any bread, or roasted or new grain,^y until the very day you bring this offering to your God.^z This is to be a lasting ordinance for the generations to come,^a wherever you live.^b

The Festival of Weeks

23:15–22pp—Nu 28:26–31; Dt 16:9–12

¹⁵“ ‘From the day after the Sabbath, the day you brought the sheaf of the wave offering, count off seven full weeks. ¹⁶Count off fifty days up to the day after the seventh Sabbath,^c and then present an offering of new grain to the Lord. ¹⁷From wherever you live, bring two loaves made of two-tenths of an ephah^d of the finest flour, baked with yeast, as a wave offering of firstfruits^e to the Lord. ¹⁸Present with this bread seven male lambs, each a year old and without defect, one young bull and two rams. They will be a burnt offering to the Lord, together with their grain offerings and drink offerings^f—a food offering, an aroma pleasing to the Lord. ¹⁹Then sacrifice one male goat for a sin offering^c and two lambs, each a year old, for a fellowship offering. ²⁰The priest is to wave the two lambs before the Lord as a wave offering,^g together with the bread of the firstfruits. They are a sacred offering to the Lord for the priest. ²¹On that same day you are to proclaim a sacred assembly^h and do no regular work.ⁱ This is to be a lasting ordinance for the generations to come, wherever you live.