The Feast of Weeks
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"You shall count seven weeks for yourself; begin to count the seven weeks from the time you begin to put the sickle to the grain.
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"Then you shall keep the l Feast of Weeks to the LORD your God with the tribute of a freewill offering from your hand, which you shall give m as the LORD your God blesses you.
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n "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 gates, the stranger and the fatherless and the widow who are among you, at the place where the LORD your God chooses to make His name abide.
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o "And you shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and you shall be careful to observe these statutes.
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Cross References
Exodus 34:22
And you shall observe the Feast of Weeks, of the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the Feast of Ingathering at the year's end.
Leviticus 23:15
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.
Leviticus 23:16
Count fifty days to the day after the seventh Sabbath; then you shall offer a new grain offering to the LORD.
Numbers 28:26
Also on the day of the firstfruits, when you bring a new grain offering to the LORD at your Feast of Weeks, you shall have a holy convocation. You shall do no customary work.
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Cross References
1 Corinthians 16:2
On the first day of the week let each one of you lay something aside, storing up as he may prosper, that there be no collections when I come.
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Cross References
Deuteronomy 16:14
And you shall rejoice in your feast, you and your son and your daughter, your male servant and your female servant and the Levite, the stranger and the fatherless and the widow, who are within your gates.
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Cross References
Deuteronomy 15:15
You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the LORD your God redeemed you; therefore I command you this thing today.
New King James Version (NKJV) Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc.