Tosefta for Menachot 123:7

ושתי הלחם ושני כבשי עצרת [וכו']: תנו רבנן (ויקרא כג, כ) והניף הכהן אותם על לחם הביכורים

I might think that he should put the lambs upon the bread, the text therefore states, Upon the two lambs.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lev. XXIII, 20. The Heb. usually connotes 'upon', but this term precedes 'the bread' and also 'the two lambs', hence the difficulty as to which was in fact 'upon' the other.');">¹¹</span> If [I had only the expression] 'upon the two lambs' [to go by], I might think that he should put the bread upon the lambs, the text therefore states, 'upon the bread of the firstfruits'.

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