The Feast of Weeks

Deuteronomy 16

9 s "You shall count seven weeks. Begin to count the seven weeks from the time the sickle is first put to the standing grain. 10 Then you shall keep t the Feast of Weeks to the Lord your God with u the tribute of a freewill offering from your hand, which you shall give v as the Lord your God blesses you. 11 And w you shall rejoice before the Lord your God, you and your son and your daughter, your male servant and your female servant, the Levite who is within your towns, the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow who are among you, at the place that the Lord your God will choose, to make his name dwell there. 12 x You shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt; and you shall be careful to observe these statutes.

  1. Cross References
    Exodus 23:16
    You shall keep the Feast of Harvest, of the firstfruits of your labor, of what you sow in the field. You shall keep the Feast of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather in from the field the fruit of your labor.
    Exodus 34:22
    You shall observe the Feast of Weeks, the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the Feast of Ingathering at the year's end.
    Leviticus 23:15
    You shall count seven full weeks from the day after the Sabbath, from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering.
    Numbers 28:26
    On the day of the firstfruits, when you offer a grain offering of new grain to the Lord at your Feast of Weeks, you shall have a holy convocation. You shall not do any ordinary work.
    Acts 2:1
    When the day of Pentecost arrived, they were all together in one place.
  2. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 8:13
    As the duty of each day required, offering according to the commandment of Moses for the Sabbaths, the new moons, and the three annual feasts - the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Weeks, and the Feast of Booths.
  3. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 26:1 - 11
    When you come into the land that the Lord your God is giving you for an inheritance and have taken possession of it and live in it.
  4. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 12:15
    However, you may slaughter and eat meat within any of your towns, as much as you desire, according to the blessing of the Lord your God that he has given you. The unclean and the clean may eat of it, as of the gazelle and as of the deer.
    1 Corinthians 16:2
    On the first day of every week, each of you is to put something aside and store it up, as he may prosper, so that there will be no collecting when I come.
  5. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 12:7
    And there you shall eat before the Lord your God, and you shall rejoice, you and your households, in all that you undertake, in which the Lord your God has blessed you.
    Deuteronomy 12:12
    And you shall rejoice before the Lord your God, you and your sons and your daughters, your male servants and your female servants, and the Levite that is within your towns, since he has no portion or inheritance with you.
    Deuteronomy 12:18
    But you shall eat them before the Lord your God in the place that the Lord your God will choose, you and your son and your daughter, your male servant and your female servant, and the Levite who is within your towns. And you shall rejoice before the Lord your God in all that you undertake.
    Deuteronomy 14:26
    And spend the money for whatever you desire - oxen or sheep or wine or strong drink, whatever your appetite craves. And you shall eat there before the Lord your God and rejoice, you and your household.
    Nehemiah 8:9 - 12
    And Nehemiah, who was the governor, and Ezra the priest and scribe, and the Levites who taught the people said to all the people, "This day is holy to the Lord your God; do not mourn or weep." For all the people wept as they heard the words of the Law.
  6. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 5:15
    You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the Lord your God brought you out from there with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm. Therefore the Lord your God commanded you to keep the Sabbath day.
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