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  An ear of [[Text:EBD:Corn|corn]], the [[Text:EBD:Month|month ]] of newly-ripened [[Text:EBD:Grain|grain ]] (Ex. 13:4; 23:15); the first of the Jewish ecclesiastical [[Text:EBD:Year|year]], and the seventh of the civil year. It began about the time of the vernal equinox, on 21st March. It was called [[Text:EBD:Nisan|Nisan]], after the [[Text:EBD:Captivity |Captivity]] (Neh. 2:1). On the fifteenth [[Text:EBD:Day|day ]] of the month, [[Text:EBD:Harvest|harvest ]] was begun by gathering a sheaf of [[Text:EBD:Barley|barley]], which was offered unto the [[Text:EBD:Lord|Lord ]] on the sixteenth (Lev. 23:4-11).