1st Month /26th Day -1st from Sabbath (sunday) : Pentacontad I - “Waving of the Sheaf”

Also see: Shebo-Shebetot / Pentacontad

Names: “Feast of Barley”, “Feast of Grain”, “Waving of the Sheaf”, “First Fruits”

Mishmarot D (4Q325)

During the same week is [the Feast] of Barley on the twenty-sixth (day) in (the first month), after the sabbath.

Calendrical Document C (4Q326)

On the 26th (day) in it:] feast of the Gr[ain after the Sabbath.

Leviticus 23

9 The Lord said to Moses,

10 “Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘When you enter the land I am going to give you and you reap its harvest, bring to the priest a sheaf of the first grain you harvest.

11 He is to wave the sheaf before the Lord so it will be accepted on your behalf; the priest is to wave it on the day after the Sabbath.

12 On the day you wave the sheaf, you must sacrifice as a burnt offering to the Lord a lamb a year old without defect,

13 together with its grain offering of two-tenths of an ephah of the finest flour mixed with olive oil—a food offering presented to the Lord, a pleasing aroma—and its drink offering of a quarter of a hin of wine.

14 You must not eat any bread, or roasted or new grain, until the very day you bring this offering to your God. This is to be a lasting ordinance for the generations to come, wherever you live.

15 “‘From the day after the Sabbath, the day you brought the sheaf of the wave offering, count off seven full weeks.

Deuteronomy 26

1When you enter the land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, and you take possession of it and settle in it, 2you are to take some of the firstfruits of all your produce from the soil of the land that the LORD your God is giving you and put them in a basket. Then go to the place the LORD your God will choose as a dwelling for His Name, 3to the priest who is serving at that time, and say to him, “I declare today to the LORD your God that I have entered the land that the LORD swore to our fathers to give us.” 4Then the priest shall take the basket from your hands and place it before the altar of the LORD your God, 5and you are to declare before the LORD your God, “My father was a wandering Aramean, and he went down to Egypt few in number and lived there and became a great nation, mighty and numerous. 6But the Egyptians mistreated us and afflicted us, putting us to hard labor. 7So we called out to the LORD, the God of our fathers; and the LORD heard our voice and saw our affliction, toil, and oppression. 8Then the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, with great terror, signs, and wonders. 9And He brought us to this place and gave us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey. 10And now, behold, I have brought the firstfruits of the land that You, O LORD, have given me.” Then you are to place the basket before the LORD your God and bow down before Him. 11So you shall rejoice—you, the Levite, and the foreigner dwelling among you—in all the good things the LORD your God has given to you and your household.

Deuteronomy 16

9 (…) the time you begin to put the sickle to the standing grain.

Exodus 23:16

“Also you shall observe the Feast of the Harvest of the first fruits of your labors from what you sow in the field;

Mishmarot A – Fr 4 iii & v

On the third (day in the week of) Meoziah: the Passover. On the 1st (day) [in (the week of) Jeda[iah]: the Waving of the [Sheaf]. On the 5th (day) in (the week of) Seorim: the [Second] Passover. vacat On the 1st (day)in (the week of) Jeshua: the Feast of Weeks. On the 4th (day) in (the week of) Meoziah: the Day of Memorial.[On] the 6th (day) in Jeiarib: the Day of Atonement [in the] seventh [month].

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Joshua 5:10-12 On the evening of the fourteenth day of the month, while camped at Gilgal on the plains of Jericho, the Israelites celebrated the Passover. The day after the Passover, that very day [the 15th], they ate some of the produce of the land: unleavened bread and roasted grain. The manna stopped the day after [the 16th], they ate this food from the land; there was no longer any manna for the Israelites, but that year they ate the produce of Canaan.

(FirstFruits according to Antiquities of the Jews – Josephus 3.10.15 "But on the second day of unleavened bread, which is the sixteenth day of the month, they first partake of the fruits of the earth, for before that day they do not touch them." According to Josephus, the Feast of First Fruits occurs on the 16th of the 1st month (Nisan 16). The Essenes celebrated it on the 26th of the 1st month. Josephus was of the branch of the Pharisees.)