English: “And if you bring” — “if” functions as “when,” for this is not optional; Scripture speaks of the omer meal-offering, which is obligatory. “Aviv” — it is stated here “aviv” and elsewhere “the barley was aviv”; just as there it is barley, so here it is barley.
In Sifra / Menachos: The language of choice is re-read as obligatory timing. The word “aviv” is linked by gezerah shavah to the barley of the Egyptian plague, fixing the omer as barley, not wheat.
Type of Learning
R’ Eliezer #7 (גזירה שוה) + custom re-reading of “im.”
What Is Learned
The first-fruits mincha of this verse is the obligatory omer of barley brought on the second day of Pesach.