The Pulpit Commentary — Leviticus — Section 383

equal to about three pecks aud three piuts Authorized Version, should be punctuated of our English measure. The ean were as follows. And the priest 1he.ll wave them brought into the court of the temple" (the two lambs) with the bread of the first. (Edersheim, 'Temple Service'), The sheaf truitll (the two loaves) for a wave oft'ering composed of these ears (for the Authorized before the Lord ; with the two le.mbs they Version is right in considering that it is (the loeves) Bhe.11 be holy to the Lord for the the sheaf, and not the omer of flour made priest. The other sacrifices to be offered out of the ears of barley, that is meant by on this day are described in the text as ii;,jl, though Josephus and tho Mishna take seven lambs, . . . one young bullock, and it.the other way) was on the following day two rams • • . for a burnt oft'ering unto waved by the priests before the Lord, in th~ Lor( '!1-th their meat oft'ering, and their token of its consecration, and through it, of drink oft'ennga, . . . and one kid of the goats the consecration of the whole barley crop to for a sin oft'ering. In the Book of Numbers the Lord. With it was offered the burnt (xxviii. 27) they are stated to be "seven offering of a lamb, a meat offering double lambs," " two young bullocks," "one ram," the usual quantity, and a drink offering. w_ith meat and drink offerings, and "oue This passage and vers. 18 and 37, are the kid of the goats." Seeing that in Leviticus only places in the Book of Leviticus where one young bullock and t1.00 rams are com- the drink offering is mentioned. Until the manded, and in Numbers "two youug waving of the sheaf, neither bread nor bullocks and one ram," it is reasonable to p&rohed oom, nor green elll'II, that is, no suppose the.t a copyist's error has found grain in any form, might be eaten. We its way into one or the other text. The may imagine how delicacies made of the feast was to be kept as a day of holy cou- new flour would at once appear in the vooation, and no servile work was to be streets as soon as the sheaf had been done upon it. The number of sacrifices waved. offered by individuals who he.d come to Vera. 15-21.-The Feast of Pentecost Jerusalem oall9ed the festivity to be in lasted but one day. From the morrow after practice oontinued for several days subse- the sabbath-that is, from the second day of quent to the festival itself. Unleavened Bread-the day that ye brought Ver. 22.-When ye reap the harvest of the Bhee.f of the wave offering; seven aab- your land. The legislator pauses in his baths, i.e. weeks, were to be counted, me.king enunciation of the festive.ls to add the rule forty-nine days, and on the day following of charity, already laid down in the nine- the completion of the seventh eabbath (mean- teenth chapter, as to leaving the gleanings ing here the seventh week), the festival was unto the poor, and to the stranger. to be held, whence its later name of Pente- Vere. 23-25.-In the seventh month, in. cost, or Fiftieth-day Feast. It would have the first day of the month. Only one of the fallen about the beginning of June-a monthly festivals is named in this chapter, sooson of the ye&r which would have made beoause it is the only ono on which a holy the journey to Jerusalem easy. The cha- convocation was to be held. The first doy raoteristio offering of the day was that of of the seventh month we should expect to be two wave leaves of two tenth dee.ls . . . of holier than the first day of any other month, fine flour . • . be.ken with leaven. These on account of the peculiar holiness of the loaves were regarded as the flrstfruita unto seventh month, and because it was the the Lord of the wheat harvest, although beginning of the oivil yonr. It is to bo a the greater part of the crop had now been sabbath; tho,t is, 11 festivlll observed by rest, reaped and housed. They were to be and a memorial of blowing of trumpets. The leavened and brought out of your habita- latter words should be rather ron<lered a tions; that is, they were to consist of such memorial of a joyful noise. Thnt these joy- bread o.s wo.s ordinarily used in daily life. ful sounds were mn<lo by blowing tho cornet, They were ma.de out of ears of wheat se- we may well believe from the testimony of lected and cut like the barley in the Feast tradition, but tho text of Holy Scripturo of Unleavened Bread, and then threshed does not state tho foct, anti the use of tho 11nd ground in the temple court. Eaoh word trumpets in pll\ce of" cornct8" lolld.s to oo.f contained an omer of flour, amounting t o a.bout five pints, and would therefore have weighed about five pounds. With 11 confusiou. Every new moon, l\n<l o.mong them that of the seventh month, was ob- served by the blowing of trumpets (Numb. these were offered two lambs, which were x. 10), but the trumpets then blown differed wnved before the Lord by being led back- in their uso and shnpe from the cornet. wards and forwards before the tabernacle or 'l'he trumpet was a long-shaped, met,11 in- the temple, and then the loaves wero waved strument, at first used to give tho signl\l for olso, but they were not placed upon the marching, afterwards to serve DB tho sign of altar, as they were leavened. The twentieth the arrival of the monthly fosti vo.l; tho ycise, whioh is somewhat obscure in the comet was an animal's horn, or, if not 11 relll. 348 THE BOOK OF LEVITICUS. [ CH, ll.Iti, 6-44,