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11 and he must wave the sheaf before the Lord to be accepted for your benefit[a]—on the day after the Sabbath the priest is to wave it.[b] 12 On the day you wave the sheaf you must also offer[c] a flawless yearling lamb[d] for a burnt offering to the Lord, 13 along with its grain offering, two-tenths of an ephah of[e] choice wheat flour[f] mixed with olive oil, as a gift to the Lord, a soothing aroma,[g] and its drink offering, one-fourth of a hin of wine.[h]

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Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 23:11 tn Heb “for your acceptance.”
  2. Leviticus 23:11 sn See Lev 7:30 for a note on the “waving” of a “wave offering.”
  3. Leviticus 23:12 tn Heb “And you shall make in the day of your waving the sheaf.”
  4. Leviticus 23:12 tn Heb “a flawless lamb, a son of its year”; KJV “of the first year”; NLT “a year-old male lamb.”
  5. Leviticus 23:13 sn See the note on Lev 5:11.
  6. Leviticus 23:13 sn See the note on Lev 2:1.
  7. Leviticus 23:13 sn See the note on Lev 1:9.
  8. Leviticus 23:13 tn Heb “wine, one-fourth of the hin.” A pre-exilic hin is about 3.6 liters (= ca. 1 gallon), so one-fourth of a hin would be about 1 quart (1 liter).