“Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘When you have come into the land which I give to you, and shall reap its harvest, then you shall bring the sheaf of the first fruits of your harvest to the priest: and he shall wave the sheaf before Yahweh, to be accepted for you. On the next day after the Sabbath the priest shall wave it.
⛓ Read Leviticus 23 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
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A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'Christ the first fruits' (vv.20,23) draws on the sheaf of firstfruits waved before the LORD as the pledge of the full harvest. The cultic firstfruits image (cf. Exod 23:19; Deut 26:1-11) coheres with Paul's logic that Christ's rising guarantees the believers' harvest; volume is conceptual rather than verbal, hence echo.
Medium confidenceThe sheaf of firstfruits waved before the LORD — cultic firstfruits ritual reinforcing aparche imagery for the 144,000. Conceptual support to Exod 23:19.
Medium confidence