When ye be come] It appeareth hereby, that though these lawes were ordained in the Desert, they were not generally and punctually to be observed there, (though some of them were, as that of the Sabbath) but in the Land of Canaan. harvest] That is, Barley harvest, which is ripe about the end of March, and the beginning of Aprill, but especially about Jericho, for there the corne is ripe sooner by fifteen dayes, then about Jerusalem, or any other part of the land of Canaan: Joseph. Antiq. lib. 3. chap. 10. a sheafe of] Hebr. an Omer. For before it was offered it was dryed, and threshed, and the graine separated from the chaffe, as Joseph. sheweth lib. 3. cap. 10. and punned or ground to meale, and that sifted, that onely the fine flowre might be offered; and so it might be measured in an Omer: and after this they were allowed to reape for themselves, which before they might not doe; at least they might not dresse any of the new corne for food, before this oblation were made. But since the word Omer, signifieth also an handfull, Deuteronomy 24:19. some would have it taken here for a sheafe, as vers. 14.