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13 Its grain offering is to be two-tenths of an omer of fine flour mixed with oil, an offering made by fire to the Lord, a pleasing fragrance. Bring a fourth of a hin of wine as a drink offering. 14 You are not to eat bread or roasted grain or the green heads of grain until that day that you have brought your offering to your God. This is a statute from one generation to the next in all of your dwellings.

15 Pentecost.[a]“You shall count off for yourselves seven complete Sabbaths from the day after the Sabbath when you brought your omer as a wave offering.

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Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 23:15 The Feast of Weeks, later called Pentecost, was an agricultural feast that had been instituted to thank the Lord for his blessings (Num 28:26-31); it then became the Feast of the Covenant.

13 together with its grain offering(A) of two-tenths of an ephah[a](B) of the finest flour mixed with olive oil—a food offering presented to the Lord, a pleasing aroma—and its drink offering(C) of a quarter of a hin[b] of wine.(D) 14 You must not eat any bread, or roasted or new grain,(E) until the very day you bring this offering to your God.(F) This is to be a lasting ordinance for the generations to come,(G) wherever you live.(H)

The Festival of Weeks(I)

15 “‘From the day after the Sabbath, the day you brought the sheaf of the wave offering, count off seven full weeks.

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Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 23:13 That is, probably about 7 pounds or about 3.2 kilograms; also in verse 17
  2. Leviticus 23:13 That is, about 1 quart or about 1 liter