Leviticus 23:9-14

Leviticus 23:9 (H). The Festival of Unleavened Bread or Mazzoth (see pp. 102f.). The wave sheaf is to be cut on the first day of the week, apparently after the Sabbath of the passover week, i.e. on the 16th of the month (but no date is actually given). For the ⅕? th ephah (about 3½ quarts), cf. Leviticus 2:14. Wine has not hitherto been mentioned in H: in P only in Exodus 29:40. No part of the new crop is to be used till the offering to Yahweh has been made.