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The Presentation of Firstfruits

The Lord spoke to Moses: 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,[a] then you must bring the sheaf of the first portion of your harvest[b] to the priest, 11 and he must wave the sheaf before the Lord to be accepted for your benefit[c]—on the day after the Sabbath the priest is to wave it.[d]

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Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 23:10 tn Heb “and you harvest its harvest.”
  2. Leviticus 23:10 tn Heb “the sheaf of the first of your harvest.”
  3. Leviticus 23:11 tn Heb “for your acceptance.”
  4. Leviticus 23:11 sn See Lev 7:30 for a note on the “waving” of a “wave offering.”