Leviticus 23:10 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

When ye be come into the land; therefore this obliged them not in the desert, where they reaped no harvest, &c. Shall reap, i.e. begin to reap, as it is expounded Deuteronomy 16:9. So, he begat, i.e. began to beget, Genesis 5:32, Genesis 11:26; and, he built, 1 Kings 6:1, i.e. he began to build, as it is explained 2 Chronicles 3:2. The harvest thereof, to wit, barley harvest, which was before wheat harvest. See Exodus 9:31,32 Exodus 34:22 Ruth 2:23. A sheaf Heb. an omer, which is the tenth part of an ephah. It seems here to note the measure of corn which was to be offered. For it is to be considered that they did not offer this corn in the ear, or by a sheaf or handful, but as Josephus, iii. 10, affirms, and may be gathered from Leviticus 2:14-16, purged from the chaff, and dried, and beaten out, and, some add, ground into meal, and sifted into fine flour; though this may be doubted of, because the meat-offering attending upon this was of fine flour, Leviticus 23:13, and because this offering is said to be of green ears of corn dried, &c., Leviticus 2:14.