Deuteronomy 16:9

Seven weeks shall you number to yourself; when you have begun to put the sickle to the corn, you shall begin to number seven weeks.

LXX2012 (US 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

8Six days shall you eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day is + 16:8 See Lev 23:6; Num 29:35; 2 Chron 7:9. a holiday, a feast to the Lord your God: you shall not do in it any work, save what + 16:8 Gr. shall etc. must be done + 16:8 Gr. for or by a soul. by any one.

10And you shall keep the feast of weeks to the Lord your God, accordingly as your hand has power in as many things as the Lord your God shall give you.

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Cross References

Exodus 23:16And you shall keep the feast of the harvest of first fruits of your labors, whatever you shall have sown in your field, and the feast of completion at the end of the year in the gathering in of your + 23:16 Gr. works. fruits out of your field.

Leviticus 23:15And you⌃ shall number to yourselves from the day after the sabbath, from the day on which you⌃ shall offer the sheaf of the heave-offering, seven full weeks:

Deuteronomy 16:10And you shall keep the feast of weeks to the Lord your God, accordingly as your hand has power in as many things as the Lord your God shall give you.

2 Chronicles 8:13according to the daily rate, to offer up sacrifices according to the commandments of Moses, on the sabbaths, and at the new moons, and at the feasts, three times in the year, at the feast of unleavened bread, and at the feast of weeks, and at the feast of tabernacles.

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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