8. For seven days present a food offering to the Lord. And on the seventh day hold a sacred assembly and do not do any of your ordinary work.” ’Offering the Firstfruits
9. The Lord said to Moses,
10. ‘Speak to the Israelites and say to them: “When you enter the land I am going to give you and you reap its harvest, bring to the priest a sheaf of the first grain you harvest.
11. He is to wave the sheaf before the Lord so it will be accepted on your behalf; the priest is to wave it on the day after the Sabbath.
12. On the day you wave the sheaf, you must sacrifice as a burnt offering to the Lord a lamb a year old without defect,
13. together with its grain offering of one fifth of an ephah of the finest flour mixed with olive oil – a food offering presented to the Lord, a pleasing aroma – and its drink offering of a quarter of a hin of wine.
14. You must not eat any bread, or roasted or new grain, until the very day you bring this offering to your God. This is to be a lasting ordinance for the generations to come, wherever you live.The Festival of Weeks
15. ‘ “From the day after the Sabbath, the day you brought the sheaf of the wave offering, count seven full weeks.
16. Count fifty days up to the day after the seventh Sabbath, and then present an offering of new grain to the Lord.
17. From wherever you live, bring two loaves made of one fifth of an ephah of the finest flour, baked with yeast, as a wave offering of firstfruits to the Lord.