Also in the day of the first-fruits In the feast of pentecost, Acts 2:1. The weeks The seven weeks which you are to number from the passover. This fifth stated and national sacrifice was also annual, namely, at the harvest festival, when the first-fruits of corn were to be offered up, Exodus 23:16. This festival was two-fold; first, the barley- harvest first-fruits, beginning at the passover; and then, at seven weeks' end, the wheat-harvest festival, called the feast of weeks, which is here intended. When ye bring a new meat or bread-offering That is, two loaves made of the first wheat flour, as the first-fruits of the said wheat- harvest.

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