Note 89 — II. OUR DUTIES. (continued 3)

Passover as an agricultural feast was kept “in the season of the month of ripeness” (‏למועד חדש האביב‎), when the barley sown in the winter had become ripe. On the second day of Passover an offering was brought of “the beginning of the harvest;” it consisted of an omer89 of barley (Lev. xxiii. 9 sqq.). Before this offering was presented it was not allowed to eat of the new corn (ibid. 14).