Why does it matter that the translators from Hebrew to English are divided? Is First Fruit on the morning of the sabbath or the day after the sabbath?

Leviticus 23:11- “after”

ECB ¹¹ and he waves the omer at the face of Yah Veh at your pleasure: the priest waves it on the morrow after the shabbath:

Leviticus 23:11 – “of”

YLT ¹¹ then he hath waved the sheaf before Jehovah for your acceptance; on the morrow of the sabbath doth the priest wave it.

Leviticus 23:11- “after”

KJV ¹¹ And he shall wave the sheaf before the LORD, to be accepted for you: on the morrow after the sabbath the priest shall wave it.

Leviticus 23:11 – “of”

JuliaSmith ¹¹ And he lifted up the handful before Jehovah for your acceptance: on the morrow of the Sabbath the priest shall lift it up.

Leviticus 23:11-“after”

CLV ¹¹ He will wave the sheaf before Yahweh for acceptance on your behalf. From the morrow after the first sabbath the priest shall wave it.

Leviticus 23:11 – “of”

LITV ¹¹ then he shall wave the sheaf before Jehovah for your acceptance; on the morrow of the sabbath the priest shall wave it.

English translators using the Greek Septuagint are also divided. The LXX writers replaced the word “sabbath” with “first day”. To them “the morrow of the first day” is the same thing as “the morrow of the sabbath”. The sabbath is the first day. So when Thomson adds the word “after” to his English text it gets really confusing: “the first day” according to Thompson can’t refer to the first day of the week (as KJV 28:1 suggests First Fruit is) because the morrow after the first day of the week is the second day of the week; that would make resurrection on a Monday for us English speakers.

Thompson must think “the first day” refers to the high sabbath, i.e., the first day of Unleavened Bread. At least he knows First Fruit can’t be on that day, so he adds “after” to the text. To Thompson the “first day” refers to the first day in the count to the seven days of Unleavened Bread, rather than the first day in the count to the fifty days of the Feast of Weeks or the first day in the count to the seventh day of the common week as the King JV would have it, therefore Mr. Thompson is compelled to add the word “after” to the translation. First Fruits is commonly observed today on the second day of unleavened bread since it can’t be on the “first day” in the count to that seventh day. But if it was the second day it would simply be on the 16th every year. Unleavened Bread lasts 7 days in order to introduce the new leaven source into a cleansed from the old leaven land, no matter what day it falls on that year.

For Thompson, First Fruits could be on any day of the commonly counted week days, because he is counting to seven from the high sabbath, which could fall on any day of the week. First Fruit can’t ever be on the high sabbath. But without the word “after” added, First Fruit is on this particular sabbath, which is the first day in the count to something else.

For tradition-keeping-Christians the resurrection can’t be on a weekly sabbath or the high sabbath of Passover. It has to be on a the first day of the week count. But if the word “after” is not in the original Hebrew or Greek texts, then the only sabbath First Fruits could be on is the first weekly sabbath after the high sabbath of Unleavened bread. If the weekly sabbath coincides that year then the first weekly sabbath after that is 7 days later; still within the clean land timeframe. The first weekly sabbath after Passover is the first sabbath in the count to 50.

First Fruit Barley harvest led to the first fruit wheat harvest after counting to fifty. The counting of the 7 complete sabbaths started on a sabbath, which is 8 sabbaths, i.e., 50 days. The One resurrected on the first day of the sabbaths had already arrived to His sabbath rest. He worked (rescued) humanity in His image and then arrived to the seventh day. The 17th is First Fruit day for God’s resurrected humanity. It is the spring resurrection of the made new and never-ending humanity (new yeast). The count to seven sevens arrives at the summer wheat harvest and that counting began the day after Jesus’ resurrection. They didn’t start counting to seven on the sabbath.

When they arrived at the seventh seven (49th day) they were added to the first day of the sabbaths resurrection, making the Jews the first fruit of the 50th day resurrection of humanity. They were still headed for their 50th year Jubilee, which was the thousand year big one of re-marriage to the new spiritual land. The Jews were very good at counting.

Leviticus 23:11- “after”

LXX Thomson ¹¹ and he shall offer up the sheaf before the Lord, to be accepted for you; On the morrow after the first day, the priest shall offer this up.

Leviticus 23:11 – “of”

LXX Brenton ¹¹ and he shall lift up the sheaf before the Lord, to be accepted for you. On the morrow of the first day the priest shall lift it up.

Genesis 19:33-34 – This “morrow” seems to be in the same Hebrew day.

LITV ³³ And they caused their father to drink wine that night. And the first born went in and lay with her father. And he did not know when she lay down nor when she rose up. ³⁴ And on the next day [on the morrow] it happened, the first born said to the younger, Behold, I lay with my father last night. Let us cause him to drink wine tonight also. And you go in and lie with him, so that we may keep alive seed of our father.

Why does it even matter if First Fruit is the morrow “of” the sabbath or the morrow “after” the sabbath or the second day of Unleavened Bread?

Matthew 28:1 – resurrection on the first of sabbaths

YLT ¹ And on the eve of the sabbaths, at the dawn, toward the first of the sabbaths, came Mary the Magdalene, and the other Mary, to see the sepulchre,

Matthew 28:1 – resurrection on the day after sabbath

KJV ¹ In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre.

Matthew 28:1 – of/of

ECB ¹
YAH SHUA RESURRECTED 
In the eve of the shabbaths as it begins to dawn to the first of the shabbaths, Miryam the Magdalene and the other Miryam go to observe the tomb. [the eve of the sabbaths was becoming the morning of first sabbath in the count to Pentecost]

Matthew 28:1 – of/of

CLV ¹ Now it is the evening of the sabbaths. At the lighting up into one of the sabbaths came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to behold the sepulcher.

“Christmas Eve” isn’t on Christmas day unless we are using biblical definitions of days. According to my daily calendar, Christmas Eve should be on the night of the 25th not the night of the 24th. Even so, Sabbath’s Eve according to Hebrew reckoning is the night before the morning of the first sabbath. “There was evening and morning the first day”

Matthew 28:1 – after/of

LITV ¹ But after the sabbaths, at the dawning of the first of the sabbaths, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary came to see the grave.

Above is a Greek to English interlinear with a little king JV on the side. Confused yet? What if the evening of the sabbaths refers to the sabbath’s eve before the Feast of Weeks? The Feast of Weeks begins at ground zero: more like ground infinity. After that day, the seven counts to seven begins, arriving on Pentecost? The 7th sabbath in the Feast of Weeks adds up to 50 days when the First Fruit sabbath is included. The first sabbatical was perpetually added to every 49th year in the fall: in the middle of the 49th year. It was typically ground infinity.

The first day in the Feast of Weeks is the day of First Fruit. Doesn’t that clear up all the confusion? All you have to do is see the plural ‘sabbaths’ in Matt. 28:1 as the Feast of Weeks sabbaths and remove the English word “after” from Leviticus 23:11, since it is nowhere in the Hebrew to English interlinear below. The Septuagint uses a word for “morrow” that means “morning breeze” which implies the morning of the same day rather than the day after.

Leviticus 23:15-16 – after/after

CLV ¹⁵ You will count off for yourselves from the morrow after the first sabbath, from the day you bring the sheaf of the wave offering: there shall be seven flawless sabbaths. ¹⁶ Until the morrow after the seventh sabbath you shall count off fifty days; then you will bring near an approach present of new grain to Yahweh.

Leviticus 23:15-16 – of/of

YLT ¹⁵ `And ye have numbered to you from the morrow of the sabbath, from the day of your bringing in the sheaf of the wave-offering: they are seven perfect sabbaths; ¹⁶ unto the morrow of the seventh sabbath ye do number fifty days, and ye have brought near a new present to Jehovah;

The Jews started the feast on the first day of the eight sabbaths. They counted to seven… seven times. They were never counting on getting to one. They even started the 50 day celebration on the seventh day already. The finished work that started the new covenant was Jesus on the day of First Fruit. His people joined His finished sixth day work on the seventh seven of Pentecost. Even so there remained the final sabbath rest of the eight day wedding in 70 AD. Jesus went to finish His work in heaven before He initiated the wedding. Tabernacles began and culminated on a sabbath too.

There is apparently a sabbath pattern in the Bible (ya think?). Day one was not the paradigmatic blessed and never-ending day they strived for. Day six was sevened by Jesus not oned. He alone displayed the full image of God in man. God had to come down to bring His sabbath rest to the sixth day. The image of God in man was the work of the sixth day that God typically finished and rested from. His Son spiritually finished it and then moved His completed humanity to the new covenant.

Genesis 1:1-5 – The first day of the seven

LITV ¹ In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth; ² and the earth being without form and empty, and darkness on the face of the deep, and the Spirit of God moving gently on the face of the waters,³ then God said, Let light be! And there was light. ⁴ And God saw the light, that it was good, and God separated between the light and darkness. ⁵ And God called the light, Day. And He called the darkness, Night. And there was evening, and there was morning the first day.

All of the day six creations needed to be moved forward, including the creations Peter saw as representing all the nations in his sheet vision.

Genesis 1:24-31 – The sixth day of the seven

LITV ²⁴ And God said, Let the earth bring forth the soul of life according to its kind: cattle, and creepers, and its beasts of the earth, according to its kind. And it was so. ²⁵ And God made the beasts of the earth according to its kind, and cattle according to its kind, and all creepers of the ground according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. ²⁶ And God said, let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over all the creepers creeping on the earth. ²⁷ And God created the man in His own image; in the image of God He created him. He created them male and female. ²⁸ And God blessed them; and God said to them, Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and rule over the fish of the sea, and over birds of the heavens, and over all beasts creeping on the earth. ²⁹ And God said, Behold, I have given you every plant seeding seed which is on the face of all the earth, and every tree in which is the fruit of a tree seeding seed; it shall be food for you.³⁰ And to every beast of the earth, and to all birds of the heavens, and to every creeper on the earth which has in it a living soul, every green plant is for food. And it was so. ³¹ And God saw everything that He had made and behold, it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning the sixth day.

God invites us to join His never-ending blessed day in the new covenant. He isn’t inviting anyone to a never-ending 6th day. The 7th day is the only day in the Genesis creation account that has no evening and morning leading into the next day. Day seven does not lead to a never-ending day one in the Genesis creation paradigm. The new covenant fulfillment is the fulfillment of the original old covenant types. Even the mystery of the gospel is now evident to us as we look back into the original creation account. Not only were the nations created on the same day as Adam, he was to name them and tame them. Day six was fulfilled by Yeshua in reverse order for all of His creation. The human enters the new creation first then the nations. In His name, Jesus calls all of His creation human, in fulfillment of the original great commission. The creation was typically tamed and being tamed by the diaspora before Jesus.

Genesis 2:1-4

LITV ¹ And the heavens and the earth were finished, and all their host. ² And on the seventh day God completed His work which He had made And He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had made. ³ And God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because He rested from all His work on it, which God had created to make. ⁴These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created in the day that Jehovah God was making earth and heavens.

Roman Catholic priests admit that they changed the typical day of worship to the first day of the week just because they claimed authority to do it, not because the Bible said to do it.

Colossians 2:16-20

JuliaSmith ¹⁶ Therefore let not any judge you in food, or in drink, or in turn of festival, or of the new moon, or of sabbaths: ¹⁷ Which are a shadow of things about to be; and the body of Christ. ¹⁸ Let none condemn you being willing in humility and religious worship of angels, going into what he has not seen, vainly puffed up by the mind of his flesh, ¹⁹ And not having power over the Head, from whom all the body, by all the senses of touch and connections furnished and joined together, increases with the increase of God. ²⁰ If therefore ye died with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as living in the world, do ye dogmatize,

The possibility for ambiguity comes from the word morrow. It doesn’t just mean dawn nor does it mean the next 24-hour day. In the verse below it refers to the daytime hours of the day. The 24-hour day starts in the dark for the Hebrews, so on the morrow isn’t the next 24-hour day. It is the next daylight portion of the same 24-hour day. It is in that sense the next ‘day’. On the morrow does begin in the morning light, but that daylight lasts about 12 hours. A morrow can certainly refer to the next day time as the next day, which is 12 hours after that day already started. So the day after a sabbath starts can mean 12 hours later, on the same day.

Numbers 11:32

CLV ³² The people rose all that day, all the night and all the morrow and gathered the quail.

The people gathered quail for about 12 hours of daylight and then they kept gathering for 12 hours of night and then they gathered for up to 12 hours of daylight again. That is the second half of the first day and both halves of the second day. Morrow can’t mean the next 24-hour day here. The 24-hour Hebrew day was half over already. They would have to skip 12 hours of daylight after the “all the night” gathering to get to the next 24-hour Hebrew day. “The morrow” (here at least) means all morning or all the daylight portion of that Hebrew day. It can not mean the “day after” if day is defined as 24 hours. It can mean the “day after” if day is defined as the daylight portion of the day.

So since your options are open, you can just choose which day fulfills the biblical types and the Genesis paradigm, rather than even think about which day “the morrow of the sabbath” means. Choose the seventh day or choose the first day, based on the big picture rather than the details. Did Jesus come to give us His old covenant sabbath completion in a made new and better covenant or did He start the new creation over fulfilling Genesis day one? Humanity didn’t even typically start till day six. And the only day in Genesis without a beginning and ending is the seventh day. As they say, “Go back to Genesis for the answers”.

Isn’t it Jesus’ resurrected old covenant humanity that brought us into His never ending seventh day? Didn’t the writer of Hebrews urge the Hebrews to work hard to enter the seventh day rather than the first day? The Hebrews were warned not to join the Judaizers who wanted to stay in their day of works, which was about to be fulfilled and come to an end. The humanity that Jesus sabbatized never dies again in the new covenant. We are in the never ending day now. The Day of the Lord both completed and ended the paradigmatic 6th day of creation. The old covenant transition out of the sixth day of works is over. Get over it. You are over it. They either got marked with six and stayed dead or got marked by the Lord of the sabbath and were made to live. Triple six meant they were really stuck in works mode. They got the trinity of sixes and we got the Trinity of God’s completion.

Genesis 2:2-3

ECB ² And by the seventh day Elohim finishes the work he worked; and on the seventh day he shabbathizes from all the work he worked: ³ and Elohim blesses the seventh day and hallows it: because Elohim shabbathizes therein from all the work he created and worked. 
RESUME’ OF CREATION 

If the above verse mentioned a blessed humanity on day one then I would argue for a day one blessed resurrection of the complete human. After the resurrection, the incomplete humanity was urged to work hard during their covenant transition, they were about to enter the impending sabbath rest of the resurrected human. It is hard work to be fully convinced in your own mind. Especially when respectable persons don’t agree with you.

The biggest temptation for Christians during the convening of their covenant transition was the judaizers. Judaizers either didn’t want to transition completely or they didn’t want to transition at all. The Sabbath rest came at the end of their transition of covenants. The land of works in the flesh was put to rest. The final Jewish Jubilee was the ultimate sevening of the land. They were set free to cultivate the spiritual land of humanity and be blessed doing it, regardless of location. 70 AD was their thousand year sabbatical. All the lands returned to the original owner for cultivation by the eternal (to the age of 1000) new covenant humanity. Jesus reined in the millennial sabbatical. He reigns.