Deuteronomy 16:9

Seven weeks number to thee from the beginning (of the harvest); when the omer of the elevation is reaped with the sickle, shalt thou begin to number the seven weeks.

Targum Onkelos

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

8Six days thou shalt eat unleavened, and on the seventh day gather together before the Lord thy God: thou shalt do no work.

10And thou shalt perform the festival of the weeks before the Lord thy God, with a tribute of the free-will offering of thy hand, which thou shalt give as the Lord thy God will have blessed thee.

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Cross References

Exodus 23:16And the festival of harvest, the firstfruits of thy labours which thou hast sowed in thy fields; and the festival of gathering, at the end of the year when thou gatherest in thy labours from the field.

Leviticus 23:15And count to you, after the festival day, from the day that you brought the omera of the elevation, seven weeks, complete shall they be.

Deuteronomy 16:10And thou shalt perform the festival of the weeks before the Lord thy God, with a tribute of the free-will offering of thy hand, which thou shalt give as the Lord thy God will have blessed thee.

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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