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'^(C1)You shall also count for yourselves from the day after the Sabbath, from the day when you brought in the sheaf of the wave offering; there shall be seven complete Sabbaths.

'You shall count fifty days to the day after the seventh Sabbath; then you shall present a ^(C1)new grain offering to the LORD.

'You shall bring in from your dwelling places two loaves of bread as a wave offering, made of ^(F1)two-tenths of an ephah; they shall be of a fine flour, baked ^(C1)with leaven as first fruits to the LORD.

'Along with the bread you shall present seven one-year-old male lambs without defect, and a bull of the herd and two rams; they are to be a burnt offering to the LORD, with their grain offering and their drink offerings, an offering by fire of a soothing aroma to the LORD.

'You shall also offer ^(C1)one male goat as a ^(F1)sin offering, and two male lambs one year old as a sacrifice of peace offerings.

'The priest shall then wave them with the bread of the first fruits as a wave offering with two lambs before the LORD; they are to be holy to the LORD for the priest.

'On this very day you shall ^(C1)make a proclamation as well; you are to have a holy convocation. You shall do no laborious ^(C2)work. It is to be a permanent statute in all your dwelling places throughout your generations.

'^(C1)When you reap the harvest of your land, moreover, you shall not reap to the very edges of your field nor gather the gleaning of your harvest; you are to leave them for the needy and the stranger. I am the LORD your God.'"