Leviticus 23:17

Ye shall bring out of your habitations two wave loaves of two tenth deals; they shall be of fine flour; they shall be baken with leaven; they are the firstfruits unto the LORD.

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
out	תָּבִ֣יאּוּ ta.Vi'.'u	H935	to go or come (in a wide variety of applications) · verb, hiphil imperfect, 2nd person masculine plural
habitations	מִמּוֹשְׁבֹ֨תֵיכֶ֜ם mi.mo.she.Vo.tei.Khem	H4186	a seat · preposition + noun, common feminine plural construct + pronominal suffix, 2nd person masculine plural
two	שְׁ֚תַּיִם She.ta.yim	H8147	two · cardinal number, feminine dual absolute
wave	תְּנוּפָ֗ה te.nu.Fah	H8573	a brandishing (in threat) · noun, common feminine singular absolute
loaves	לֶ֣חֶם Le.chem	H3899	food (for man or beast) · noun, common masculine singular construct
two	שְׁנֵ֣י she.Nei	H8147	two · cardinal number, both genders dual construct
deals	עֶשְׂרֹנִ֔ים 'es.ro.Nim	H6241	(fractional) a tenth part · noun, common masculine plural absolute
flour	סֹ֣לֶת So.let	H5560	flour (as chipped off) · noun, common feminine singular absolute
baken	תֵּאָפֶ֑ינָה te.'a.Fei.nah	H644	to cook · verb, niphal imperfect, 3rd person feminine plural
leaven	חָמֵ֖ץ cha.Metz	H2557	ferment · adjective, masculine singular absolute
firstfruits	בִּכּוּרִ֖ים bi.ku.Rim	H1061	the first-fruits of the crop · noun, common masculine plural absolute
LORD	לַֽיהוָֽה la.Yah.weh	H3068	Jehovah · preposition + proper noun, a title

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Cross-references

Leviticus 23:10 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come into the land which I give unto you, and shall reap the harvest thereo…
Exodus 23:19 The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring into the house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother’s mi…
Exodus 34:22 And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, of the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the year’s end.
Exodus 34:26 The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring unto the house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother’s mi…
Leviticus 7:13 Besides the cakes, he shall offer for his offering leavened bread with the sacrifice of thanksgiving of his peace offerings.
Numbers 28:26 Also in the day of the firstfruits, when ye bring a new meat offering unto the LORD, after your weeks be out, ye shall have an holy convocat…
Exodus 22:29 Thou shalt not delay to offer the first of thy ripe fruits, and of thy liquors: the firstborn of thy sons shalt thou give unto me.
Exodus 23:16 And the feast of harvest, the firstfruits of thy labours, which thou hast sown in the field: and the feast of ingathering, which is in the e…

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Leviticus 23:15-22

Here is the institution of the feast of pentecost, or weeks, as it is called (Deu 16:9), because it was observed fifty days, or seven weeks, after the passover. It is also called the feast of harvest, Exo 23:16. For as the presenting of the sheaf of first-fruits was an introduction to the harvest, and gave them liberty to put in the sickle, so they solemnized the finishing of their corn-harvest at this feast. 1. Then they offered a handful of ears of barley, now they offered two loaves of wheaten bread, Lev 23:17. This was leavened. At the passover they ate unleavened bread, because it was in remembrance of the bread they ate when they came out of Egypt, which was unleavened; but now at pent…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Leviticus 23:17

Ye shall bring out of your habitations two wave loaves of two tenth deals, &c.--These loaves were made of "fine" or wheaten flour, the quantity contained in them being somewhat more than ten pounds in weight. As the wave-sheaf gave the signal for the commencement, the two loaves solemnized the termination of the harvest season. They were the first-fruits of that season, being offered unto the Lord by the priest in name of the whole nation. (See Exo 34:22). The loaves used at the Passover were unleavened; those presented at Pentecost were leavened--a difference which is thus accounted for, that the one was a memorial of the bread hastily prepared at their departure, while the other was a trib…

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Adam Clarke on Leviticus 23:15

Ye shall count unto you - seven Sabbaths - That is, from the sixteenth of the first month to the sixth of the third month. These seven weeks, called here Sabbaths, were to be complete, i. e., the forty-nine days must be finished, and the next day, the fiftieth, is what, from the Septuagint, we call pentecost. See the note on Luk 6:1.

John Gill on Leviticus 23:17

And ye shall bring out of your habitations two wave loaves of two tenth deals,.... Out of their habitations in the land of Canaan; and not out of those without the land, as Jarchi observes; and not out of all of them, as Ben Gersom remarks; though the Vulgate Latin version has it, out of "all" of our habitations, but wrongly; and indeed out of no one particular habitation, because it was at the public expense; but they were brought from some part of the country or another, even the quantity of two tenth parts of an ephah, or two omers of wheat flour made into two loaves, which were to be, and were waved before the Lord, and hence so called; and are the same with the new meat offering, or rat…

The Church Fathers

Two loaves of bread made from the first fruits of the new harvest were rightly ordered to be offered, for the church gathers those it can consecrate to its Redeemer as a new family from both peoples, the Jews and the Gentiles.
— Bede, Homilies on the Gospels 2.17

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Dictionary and topics

Festivals, Religious — There were daily (Lev. 23), weekly, monthly, and yearly festivals, and great stress was laid on the regular observance of them in every particular (Num. 28:1-8; Ex. 29:38-42; Lev. 6:8-23; Ex. 30:7-9;…
First-fruits — The first-fruits of the ground were offered unto God just as the first-born of man and animals. The law required, (1.) That on the morrow after the Passover Sabbath a sheaf of new corn should be…
Law of Moses — Is the whole body of the Mosaic legislation (1 Kings 2:3; 2 Kings 23:25; Ezra 3:2). It is called by way of eminence simply “the Law” (Heb. Torah, Deut. 1:5; 4:8, 44; 17:18, 19; 27:3, 8). As a written…
Pentecost — I.e., “fiftieth”, found only in the New Testament (Acts 2:1; 20:16; 1 Cor. 16:8). The festival so named is first spoken of in Ex. 23:16 as “the feast of harvest,” and again in Ex. 34:22 as “the day…
Sacrifice — The offering up of sacrifices is to be regarded as a divine institution. It did not originate with man. God himself appointed it as the mode in which acceptable worship was to be offered to him by…
Wave offerings — Parts of peace-offerings were so called, because they were waved by the priests (Ex. 29:24, 26, 27; Lev. 7:20-34; 8:27; 9:21; 10:14, 15, etc.), in token of a solemn special presentation to God. They…
Bread · .Leavened (ma — .Leavened (ma
Feast Of Pentecost, The · The first fruits of bread presented at — The first fruits of bread presented at
First Fruits · Wave offering of — Wave offering of
First Fruits, The · Different kinds of: Wheat harvest — Different kinds of: Wheat harvest
Harvest

Leviticus 23:17

Word by word — the Hebrew

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Leviticus 23:15-22

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Leviticus 23:17

Adam Clarke on Leviticus 23:15

John Gill on Leviticus 23:17

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Leviticus 23:17

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Leviticus 23:15-22

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Leviticus 23:17

Adam Clarke on Leviticus 23:15

John Gill on Leviticus 23:17

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

John Calvin on Leviticus 23:3-21

Keil & Delitzsch on Leviticus 23:15-17

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Leviticus 23:15-21

Rashi on Leviticus 23:17