Note 140 — II. OUR DUTIES. (continued 3)
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(2.) חדש “New corn.”—The Omer of barley offered on the second day of Passover is called “the first of your harvest” (Lev. xxiii. 10), and it was enjoined, “Ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn, nor fresh ears,140 until this selfsame day, until ye have brought the oblation of your God” (ibid. 14).