Leviticus 23:11

The ritual here set forth has no parallel elsewhere in the Pentateuch. Deuteronomy 26:2 prescribes that -the first of all the fruit of the ground" shall be offered, but gives no direction as to any particular day. In Deuteronomy 16:9-10 the nature of the offering is left undetermined, and the date is seven weeks -from the time thou beginnest to put the sickle to the standing corn."

shall wave See Appendix IV, pp. 183 ff.

the morrow after the sabbath For this vague expression see introd. note to ch. Driver (LO T.9 p. 55 note) says that it is understood traditionally of the 1st day of Maẓẓoth(unleavened bread); but this is an unusual sense of -sabbath." He considers it probable that in its original connexion the -sabbath" meant here was the ordinary weekly sabbath which fell during the seven days of Maẓẓoth.