11 And he shall wave the sheaft before the LORD,
to be accepted for you #» : on the morrow after the
ſabbath » the prieſt shall wave :. :
m That God may accept of you and bleſs you in the reſt of your harveſt. » ( i. e. ) After the firſt day of the feaſt of unleavened bread, which wasa Sabbath or Day of Reſt, as appears from werſe 7. or upon the ſixteenth day of the Month. And this was the firſt of thoſe fifty days, in the cloſe whereof was the feaſt of Pentecoſt or Whitſuntide.
12 And ye $hall offer that day, when ye wave the
sheaf, an he-lamb s wichout blemisk of che firſt year,
for a burnt-offering unto the LORD.
o Beſides the daily morning and evening ſacrifice, which it was needIlz{s to mention here, and beſides one of thoſe ſacrifices ro be offered every day of the ſeven, verſe 8.
12 And the meat-offering thereof ſhall be two tenth-
deals p of fine flour mingled with oy], an offering made by fire unto the LORD for a ſweet favour : and the drink-oftering thereof q ſhall be of wine, the fourth part
of an hin r. þ Or, parts, to wit, of an Ephah, 7.e. two Omers, whereas in other ſacrifices of Lambs there was bur one tenth deal preſcribed Num: 15.4. The reaſon of which diſproportion may be this, that one of the tenth deals was a nec<{[iry atrendant.upon the Lamb, and the other was peculiar to this feaſt and occaſion, and was an attendant upon thatof the ſheafor Corn, and was offered with it in thankſgiving to God for the fruics of the Earth. .q Drink-offerings were addedto
| all burnt-offerings, as we may ſee, Numb: 15: 5. r The meaſure
appvinted for every Lamb, Num: 15: 5. This alſo probably would have been doubled, for the reaton now mentioned, had this been a thank-cffering for the vintage as it was for the Harveſt.
14 And ye shall eat neither bread s, nor parched corn, nor green ears t, until the ſelf-ſame day « that ye have brought an offering unto your God : it ſhall bea ſtatute for ever throughout your generations, in all your dwellings.
s Made of new Wheat, as the nature and reaſon of the Law ſheweth. + Which were uſual, net only for offerings to God, as Levlt: 2: 14: but alſo for Mans Fcod. See Joſh. 5: 11: Ruth 2: 14; 1 Sam: 17: 17: Matth: 12:1, #u Good reaſon God ſhould be firſt ſerved and owned as the Supream Landlord.
15 And * yeshall count unto you from the morrow
aſter the ſabbath x, from the day that ye brought the
Or frven Sheafof the waye-offering, | ſeven ſabbaths y shall be
weeks.
*Ex:23:16
19: and 34:326; Num: 1
compleat.
x (i. e.) From the ſixteenth day of the month, and the ſecond day of the feaſt of unleavened bread incluſively. Seeon werſe 11. (5. e.) weeks, which are ſo called, by a Synecdoche, from the chief day of it, borh here and Luke 18: 12; Afffs 20:71; 1 Cor: 16: 2.
16 Even unto the morrow after the ſeventh ſabbath & ſhall ye number fifty days, and ye $hall offer a new
meat-offering a unto the LORD.
z (:.e. ) Afffeer ſeven weeks or fourty nine days, the morrow after which was the fifcieth day, called alſo Pentecoſt. # To wit, of new Corn made into loaves, as it follows.
I7 Ye ſhbalbring outof your habitations þ two wave- loaves of two tenth-deals c : they ſhall be of fine flour, they (hall be baken with leaven 4d, :they are the * firſt- fruits unto the LORD.
b (i-e.) Our of the Corn of your own land, for which and for the | fruits of it you are now to offer praiſes unto God. And this alſo,
" as well as the former ſacrifice, w:s brought our of the common
charge, and inthe name of the whole nation, whence it is ſaid to be brought out of their havitations in the plural number. Some conceive two ſeveral loaves were brought fromevery Family, or, as others, f:om every City or Town. But this is cafily confuted from werſe 18; where we read that with the bread, 149) wit, th: two loaves, were t0 be Offered ſeven Lambs, one Bullock, &c, which doubtleſs was a common
oblation, and in thename of all, « In double proportion, as before,
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7 In the firſt day ye ſhall have an holy convocation :
forthetwo lambs, otherwiſe they had been roo big and too heavy to
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verſe 13. d Becauſe theſe were not offered to God, but wholly given to the Prieſts for Food. S:e on Lew: 2: 11; and7. 13. - |
18 And ye hall offer with the bread ſeven lambs without blemiſh of the firſt year, and one young bullock; and two rams e: they (hall be fer a burnc-offering ur to the LORD, with their meat-offering, and their drink- ofterings ; even an offerizg made by hire of ſweet ſarour unto the LORD.
e In Numb: 28: 11, 19: It is two young Bullocks and one Raw, Firher therefore ir was left to their liberty rochuſe which they ould offer, or one of the Bullocks there, and one of the Rams here, were ths peculiar ſacrifices of the feaſt-day, and the other were attendants upon two loaves, which were the principal and mol? proper offering at this time. And the one may be mentioned there, and the other here, to teach us, thar the addicion of a new ſacrifice did not deſtroy che former, but borh were to be offered, as-the extraordinary }. ſacrifices of every Feaſt did not hinder the oblation of the daily ſacrihce.
19 Then ye ſhall facrifice * one kid of the goats for a ſin-ofzring f, and two lambs of the firſt year for
a ſacrifice of * peace-offerings.
f In Lzvit: 4: 14: the fin-offering for the ſin of the people is a bullock, but here # kid, &c. the reaſon of the difference may be this, becauſe that was for ſome particular ſin of the people, but this Only in general for all their ſins. If it be ſaid, then this ſh:uld have been che better ſacrifice,as beingfor far more and poflibly greater offences, it may be replied, that this is not the only inſtance wherein the greater f1ns are expiated by ſmaller ſacrifices, , and the ſmaller ſins by greater ſacrifices; which was to inftrutt us, that fins were not expiated by the ſacrifices for any worth in them, but only in reſpe& of Chriſt ; and thar, rhough all fins are not equal, yet they are _ explated by one and the ſame Price, even by the Blood .of
rilt. |
20 And the prieſt shall wave them g with the bread of the firſt-fruits for a wave-offering before the LORD, wich the ewo lambs : * chey shall be holy to the LORD, * + for the prieſts 6b. |
g (7.e.) Some part of them in the name of the whole ; and fo
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