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Leviticus 23

Leviticus 23:18

The Feast of Weeks · Leviticus 23:15–22
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Translations

Modern
Along with the bread you are to present seven unblemished male lambs a year old, one young bull, and two rams. They will be a burnt offering to the LORD, together with their grain offerings and drink offerings—a food offering, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.
Traditional
And ye shall offer with the bread seven lambs without blemish of the first year, and one young bullock, and two rams: they shall be for a burnt offering unto the Lord, with their meat offering, and their drink offerings, even an offering made by fire, of sweet savour unto the Lord.
Literal
And you shall offer with the bread seven lambs unblemished, sons of a year, and one bull, a son of the herd, and two rams; they shall be a burnt offering to YHWH, and with their grain offerings and their drink offerings, a fire offering for a pleasing aroma to YHWH.
Latin
Offeretisque cum panibus septem agnos immaculatos anniculos, et vitulum de armento unum, et arietes duos, et erunt in holocaustum cum libamentis suis, in odorem suavissimum Domini.

Original

Hebrew
English
Along with the bread you are to present seven unblemished male lambs a year old, one young bull, and two rams. They will be a burnt offering to the LORD, together with their grain offerings and drink offerings—a food offering, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.

Notes

Leviticus 23:18

The drink offerings probably contained two quarts of wine (see Exodus 29:40; Numbers 15:5, 10).

Leviticus 23:15–21

Israel was to start counting seven full weeks from the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread. The fiftieth day marked the start of the Feast of Weeks (harvest). The New Testament calls this "Pentecost," from the Greek word for "fifty."

During this festival, people offered the first portions of the wheat harvest. Each person also had to take three quarts of fine flour and bake two loaves of yeast bread. They then presented these offerings to the priest at the sanctuary. See also study note on Exodus 23:16.

Theme notes and profiles

Ancient Law Codes

Parallels

Acts 2:1–13

Glossary

Biblical Concept of Law Deuteronomy, Book of Feasts and Festivals of Israel Firstfruits History of Israel Leviticus, Book of Offerings and Sacrifices

Topics

Offerings: Burnt: Ordinances Concerning Offerings: Drink: Libations of Wine offered with the Sacrifices Offerings: Wave: Ordinances Concerning Pentecost: Institution of Seven: Miscellany of Sevens: Rams and Bullocks to the Number of, Required in Sarifices The Feast of Pentecost: Sacrifices At