Feast of Barley
| Day of year | 026 |
|---|---|
| Day of Month | 26 |
| Month Number | 1 |
| Month | ๐ผUnspring |
| Season | ๐ผSpring |
| Day of the week | ๐ขSN ๐ค |
| Parashah | 28. Meรงoraฤฃ ืืฆืืจืข |
Bible
And he shall wave the sheaf before the LORD, to be accepted for you: on the morrow after the sabbath the priest shall wave it. And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the sabbath, from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven sabbaths shall be complete: Even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall offer a new meat offering unto the LORD.
Seven weeks shalt thou number unto thee: begin to number the seven weeks from such time as thou beginnest to put the sickle to the corn.
All the best of the new oil and all the best of the new wine and grain — the choice parts that they present to YHWH — I give to you.
The first produce of everything in their land, that they bring to YHWH, shall be yours; everyone of your household who is clean may eat them.
You shall surely tithe all the produce of your sowing which the field brings forth each year, 14:22 and you shall eat before YHWH your God in the place where He will chose for His Name to reside, the tithe of your grain, your wine, and your oil, as well as the first-born of your cattle and your flock in order that you will learn to respect YHWH your God for all time.
Temple Scroll (11QTb 5-6)
[ืืืขืฉืจืื ืืฉืฉื ืืืืฉ ืืจืืืฉืื֗] ืฉืืชื֗ื ืื֗ืจ֗ืื ืืงืจื ืงืืืฉ [ืืื ืืืืื ืืื ืชืขืฉื ืื ืื ืื ืืืื ื]ืฉ֗ืจ ืืขืฉื ืื ืคืฉ…
[On the 26th of the firs]t [month] is a day of rest, a sacred convocation, [all forms of labor you shall not perform, except that food whi]ch is made for a person.
Wine and oil could not have been brought to the Temple together with wheat on Shavuot/Bikkurim since they were not yet ripe.
Barley harvest started early spring and Wheat late spring. Grapes would only begin to be harvested in the early summer, and the ingathering season concluded with two months of olive harvesting in the late summer, early autumn. This is why Shavuot/Bikkurim, which takes place in the late spring, only celebrates wheat.
This is why The ESSENE community celebrated four pentacontads. This method allowed them to keep the tithing laws in Deuteronomy 14:22.
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