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Tyndale Open Study Notes on Leviticus 23:10

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Tyndale Open Study Notes
Tyndale House Publishers · Modern study notes
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23:10-14 Just as the burned portion of each sacrifice represented the whole offering and the tithe symbolized that all of a person’s money belonged to God, so also the first portions of each harvest, or first crops, symbolized the entire harvest, and even the land itself (25:23), as belonging to the Lord. In the barley harvest, the first portions were offered as part of the Festival of Unleavened Bread (23:6, 10-12). The first portions of the wheat harvest were offered during the Festival of Harvest (23:15-21; Exod 34:22). These gifts to God recognized God’s prior gifts to Israel (see Lev 2:1). The entire offering of first crops became the property and food of God’s representatives, the priests (see 2:14-16).
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