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Seven weeks shall you number to you: from the time you begin to put the sickle to the standing grain shall you begin to number seven weeks.
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The Countdown to Pentecost
Commentators explain that this verse establishes the timing for the Feast of Weeks, which is the Old Testament name for Pentecost. The seven-week (or 50-day) countdown began during the Passover festival, specifically from the day the first sheaf of the barley harvest was offered to God. This directly linked the celebration of deliverance (Passover) with the celebration of God's provision (Pentecost).
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Deuteronomy
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Feast of Weeks; and (Deuteronomy 16:13–17), Feast of Tabernacles. Nothing is here added to the rules given in Leviticus and Numbers exc…
19th Century
Anglican
Deuteronomy 16:9–12. THE FEAST OF WEEKS, OR PENTECOST.
See also Exodus 23:16; Exodus 34:18–23;[Refer…
16th Century
Protestant
Seven weeks you shall number. It must be observed that the Passover fell in a part of the year when the harvests were beginning to ripen; …
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Seven weeks then you shall number for yourself And then another feast was to take place, called from hence the feast…
The laws for the three yearly feasts are repeated here: that of the Passover, that of Pentecost, that of Tabernacles; and the general law concernin…
