Text -- Leviticus 23:9-14 (NET)

The Presentation of First Fruits

23:9 The Lord spoke to Moses: 23:10 “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, then you must bring the sheaf of the first portion of your harvest to the priest, 23:11 and he must wave the sheaf before the Lord to be accepted for your benefit– on the day after the Sabbath the priest is to wave it. 23:12 On the day you wave the sheaf you must also offer a flawless yearling lamb for a burnt offering to the Lord, 23:13 along with its grain offering, two tenths of an ephah of choice wheat flour mixed with olive oil, as a gift to the Lord, a soothing aroma, and its drink offering, one fourth of a hin of wine. 23:14 You must not eat bread, roasted grain, or fresh grain until this very day, until you bring the offering of your God. This is a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all the places where you live.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Lev 23:10

¹ tn Heb “and you harvest its harvest.”

² tn Heb “the sheaf of the first of your harvest.”

NET Notes: Lev 23:11

¹ tn Heb “for your acceptance.”

² sn See Lev 7:30 for a note on the “waving” of a “wave offering.”

NET Notes: Lev 23:12

¹ tn Heb “And you shall make in the day of your waving the sheaf.”

² tn Heb “a flawless lamb, a son of its year”; KJV “of the first year”; NLT “a year-old male lamb.”

NET Notes: Lev 23:13

¹ sn See the note on Lev 5:11.

² sn See the note on Lev 2:1.

³ sn See the note on Lev 1:9.

⁴ tn Heb “wine, one fourth of the hin.” A pre-exilic hin is about 3.6 liters (= ca. 1 quart), so one fourth of a hin would be about one cup.

NET Notes: Lev 23:14

¹ tn Heb “until the bone of this day.”

² tn Heb “for your generations.”