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The Feast of Weeks

You must count seven weeks; you must begin to count them[a] from the time you begin to harvest the standing grain. 10 Then you are to celebrate the Feast of Weeks[b] before the Lord your God with the voluntary offering[c] that you will bring, in proportion to how he[d] has blessed you.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 16:9 tn Heb “the seven weeks.” The translation uses a pronoun to avoid redundancy in English.
  2. Deuteronomy 16:10 tn The Hebrew phrase חַג שָׁבֻעוֹת (khag shavuʿot) is otherwise known in the OT (Exod 23:16) as קָצִיר (qatsir, “harvest”) and in the NT as πεντηχοστή (pentēhchostē, “Pentecost”).
  3. Deuteronomy 16:10 tn Heb “the sufficiency of the offering of your hand.”
  4. Deuteronomy 16:10 tn Heb “the Lord your God.” See note on “he” in 16:1.