Leviticus 23:9-14

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, ¹  then you must bring the sheaf of the first portion of your harvest ²  to the priest, 23:11 and he must wave the sheaf before the Lord to be accepted for your benefit ³  – on the day after the Sabbath the priest is to wave it. ⁴  23:12 On the day you wave the sheaf you must also offer ⁵  a flawless yearling lamb ⁶  for a burnt offering to the Lord, 23:13 along with its grain offering, two tenths of an ephah of ⁷  choice wheat flour ⁸  mixed with olive oil, as a gift to the Lord, a soothing aroma, ⁹  and its drink offering, one fourth of a hin of wine. ¹⁰  23:14 You must not eat bread, roasted grain, or fresh grain until this very day, ¹¹  until you bring the offering of your God. This is a perpetual statute throughout your generations ¹²  in all the places where you live.

[23:10]  ¹ tn Heb “and you harvest its harvest.”

[23:10]  ² tn Heb “the sheaf of the first of your harvest.”

[23:11]  ³ tn Heb “for your acceptance.”

[23:11]  ⁴ sn See Lev 7:30 for a note on the “waving” of a “wave offering.”

[23:12]  ⁵ tn Heb “And you shall make in the day of your waving the sheaf.”

[23:12]  ⁶ tn Heb “a flawless lamb, a son of its year”; KJV “of the first year”; NLT “a year-old male lamb.”

[23:13]  ⁷ sn See the note on Lev 5:11.

[23:13]  ⁸ sn See the note on Lev 2:1.

[23:13]  ⁹ sn See the note on Lev 1:9.

[23:13]  ¹⁰ 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.

[23:14]  ¹¹ tn Heb “until the bone of this day.”

[23:14]  ¹² tn Heb “for your generations.”