The Festival of Weeks^(A)

⁹ Count off seven weeks^(B) from the time you begin to put the sickle to the standing grain.^(C)

²² “Celebrate the Festival of Weeks with the firstfruits^(A) of the wheat harvest, and the Festival of Ingathering^(B) at the turn of the year.^[a]

¹⁶ “Celebrate the Festival of Harvest^(A) with the firstfruits^(B) of the crops you sow in your field.

“Celebrate the Festival of Ingathering^(C) at the end of the year, when you gather in your crops from the field.^(D)

The Holy Spirit Comes at Pentecost

2 When the day of Pentecost^(A) came, they were all together^(B) in one place.

Warning to Pay Attention

2 We must pay the most careful attention, therefore, to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away.^(A)

⁸ But I will stay on at Ephesus^(A) until Pentecost,^(B)

¹³ according to the daily requirement^(A) for offerings commanded by Moses for the Sabbaths,^(B) the New Moons^(C) and the three^(D) annual festivals—the Festival of Unleavened Bread,^(E) the Festival of Weeks^(F) and the Festival of Tabernacles.^(G)

¹⁶ Three times a year all your men must appear^(A) before the Lord your God at the place he will choose: at the Festival of Unleavened Bread,^(B) the Festival of Weeks and the Festival of Tabernacles.^(C) No one should appear before the Lord empty-handed:^(D)

¹⁰ Then celebrate the Festival of Weeks to the Lord your God by giving a freewill offering in proportion to the blessings the Lord your God has given you.