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Leviticus 23:18 Explained in Context

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Verse 18. And ye shall offer with the bread seven lambs without blemish of the first year, and one young bullock, and two rams: they shall be for a burnt offering unto the LORD, with their meat offering, and their drink offerings, even an offering made by fire, of sweet savour unto the LORD.

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Role in This Section

This verse surrounds the bread with lambs, a bull, rams, grain, and drink offerings.

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  • Leviticus 23:15-22

Start with 23:15-22 rather than Leviticus 23:18 alone. In that complete movement, this verse surrounds the bread with lambs, a bull, rams, grain, and drink offerings. The unit's controlling claim is: Fifty-day counting leads to leavened firstfruits bread and animal offerings, and the unit closes by reserving harvest edges for poor and resident outsider.

Why It Needs Context

The verse surrounds the bread with lambs, a bull, rams, grain, and drink offerings. Follow Leviticus 23:15-22 before drawing an enduring truth, since the surrounding case determines what this detail does and does not establish.

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Read Leviticus 23:15-22 — Seven weeks culminate in bread, offerings, and gleaning
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King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006

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USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.

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Exact location: Leviticus 23:15-22, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus

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Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Lev.xml, Masoretic words and morphology for 23:15-22

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