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When ye be come into the land; therefore this obliged them not in the desert, where they reaped no harvest, &c.
Shall reap, i.e. begin to reap, as it is expounded Deu_16:9. So, he begat, i.e. began to beget, Gen_5:32 11:26; and, he built, 1Ki_6:1, i.e. he began to build, as it is explained 2Ch_3:2. The harvest thereof, to wit, barley harvest, which was before wheat harvest. See Exo_9:31,32 34:22 Rth_2:23.
A sheaf Heb. an omer, which is the tenth part of an ephah. It seems here to note the measure of corn which was to be offered. For it is to be considered that they did not offer this corn in the ear, or by a sheaf or handful, but as Josephus, iii. 10, affirms, and may be gathered from Lev_2:14-16, purged from the chaff, and dried, and beaten out, and, some add, 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, Lev_23:13, and because this offering is said to be of green ears of corn dried, &c., Lev_2:14.