Ye shall bring out of your habitations two wave loaves of two tenth deals: they shall be of fine flour; they shall be baken with leaven; [they are] the firstfruits unto the LORD.
Ver. 17. Out of your habitations.] That is, Out of the new corn (growing of the same land which God gave them to inherit) not foreign.
The firstfruits,] viz., Of their wheat harvest, as the shake sheaf Lev 23:10 was of their barley harvest. Thus were they to express their thankfulness to God for those precious fruits of the earth. Jam 5:7