Matthew Poole and continuators on Leviticus 23:10

10 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come into the land which I give unto you, and shall reap the harvest thereof ▪ then ye shall bring a sheaf of the first-fruits of your harvest unto the priest:

Therefore this obliged them not in the desert, where they reaped no harvest, &c.

(i. e.) begin to reap, as it is expounded Deut. 16. 9. So he beg[illegible: 1+ letters]t, i. e. began to beget, Gen. 5. 32. and 11. 26. and he built, 1 King. 6. 1. i. e. he began to build, as it is explained, 2 Chro[illegible: 1+ letters]. 3. 1.

To wit, barly harvest, which was before wheat harvest. See Exod. 9. 31, 32. and 34. 22. Ruth 2. 23.

Heb. An omer, which is the tenth part of an Ephah. It seems here to note the measure of corn which was to be o[illegible: 1+ letters]ered. For it is to be considered, that they did not offer this Corn in the ear or by a sheaf or handful, but, as Iosephus 3. 10. affirms, and may be gathered from Levit. 2. 14, 15, 16. purged from the chaff, and dryed, and beaten out, and, some adde, ground into meal and sifted into fine flour; though this may be doubted of, because the meat-offering attending upon this was of fine flour, ver. 13. and because this offering is said to be of green ears of Cor[illegible: 1+ letters] dried, &c. Levit. 2. 14.

Marginal references: Exod. 23. 16. Num. 28. 26.; Or, handful.; Heb. an Omer.