From wherever you live, bring two loaves made of two-tenths of an ephah of the finest flour, baked with yeast, as a wave offering of firstfruits to the Lord. The Feast of Weeks' distinctive offering: two leavened loaves as a wave offering. The only major offering in the Levitical system that uses leavened bread — the yeast that is prohibited from the altar is present in the Feast of Weeks' wave loaves. The leavened loaves communicate the completeness of the wheat harvest's offering: the bread of ordinary life, with leaven, is waved before God as the harvest's firstfruits. The leaven present in the wave loaves is the leaven of the community's ordinary life brought into the covenant's celebration.

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