Deuteronomy 16:9

Let seven weeks be numbered from the first day when the grain is cut.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

Seven weeks shalt thou number unto thee: begin to number the seven weeks from such time as thou beginnest to put the sickle to the corn.

In Context

8For six days let your food be unleavened bread; and on the seventh day there is to be a holy meeting to the Lord your God; no work is to be done.

10Then keep the feast of weeks to the Lord your God, with an offering freely given to him from the wealth he has given you:

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Cross References

Exodus 23:16And the feast of the grain-cutting, the first-fruits of your planted fields: and the feast at the start of the year, when you have got in all the fruit from your fields.

Leviticus 23:15And let seven full weeks be numbered from the day after the Sabbath, the day when you give the grain for the wave offering;

Deuteronomy 16:10Then keep the feast of weeks to the Lord your God, with an offering freely given to him from the wealth he has given you:

2 Chronicles 8:13Offering every day what had been ordered by Moses, on the Sabbaths and at the new moon and at the regular feasts three times a year, that is at the feast of unleavened bread, the feast of weeks, and the feast of tents.

1 Corinthians 16:8But I will be at Ephesus till Pentecost;

Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 16:2-18

Yearly Release. ( b. c. 1451.) 1 Observe the month of Abib, and keep the passover unto the Lord thy God: for in the month of Abib the Lord thy God brought thee forth out of Egypt by night. 2 Thou shalt therefore sacrifice the passover unto the Lord thy God, of the flock and the herd, in the place which the Lord shall choose to place his name there. 3 Thou shalt eat no leavened bread with it; seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread therewith, even the bread of affliction; for thou camest forth out of the land of… Read the whole commentary →

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