“From the day after the Sabbath—the day you bring the bundle of grain to be lifted up as a special offering—count off seven full weeks.
Parallel translations
- WEB “‘You shall count from the next day after the Sabbath, from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven Sabbaths shall be completed:
- KJV And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the sabbath, from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven sabbaths shall be complete:
- BSB From the day after the Sabbath, the day you brought the sheaf of the wave offering, you are to count off seven full weeks.
- ESV “You shall count seven full weeks from the day after the Sabbath, from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering.
- NKJV ‘And you shall count for yourselves from the day after the Sabbath, from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering: seven Sabbaths shall be completed.
- NASB ‘You shall also count for yourselves from the day after the Sabbath, from the day when you brought in the sheaf of the wave offering; there shall be seven complete Sabbaths.
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From the day of the wave offering, Israel counts seven full weeks.
Overview
This begins the count toward the next feast, fifty days after the firstfruits sheaf. The careful counting linked the grain harvest's beginning to its completion in worship. This span sets up the Feast of Weeks, which in the New Testament becomes the day the Spirit was poured out (Acts 2:1).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 5
- Lev 23:10–11“Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘When you have come into the land which I give to you, and shall reap its harvest, then you shall bring the sheaf of the first fruits of your harvest to the priest:
- Exod 34:22“You shall observe the feast of weeks with the first fruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of harvest at the year’s end.
- Lev 25:8“‘You shall count off seven Sabbaths of years, seven times seven years; and there shall be to you the days of seven Sabbaths of years, even forty-nine years.
- Deut 16:9–10You shall count for yourselves seven weeks. From the time you begin to put the sickle to the standing grain you shall begin to count seven weeks.
- Num 28:26“‘Also in the day of the first fruits, when you offer a new meal offering to Yahweh in your feast of weeks, you shall have a holy convocation. You shall do no regular work;
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