The Festival of Weeks

“You are to count seven weeks, counting the weeks from the time the sickle is first put to the standing grain.(A) 10 You are to celebrate the Festival of Weeks(B) to the Lord your God with a freewill offering(C) that you give in proportion to how the Lord your God has blessed you. 11 Rejoice(D) before the Lord your God in the place where he chooses to have his name dwell—you, your son and daughter, your male and female slave, the Levite within your city gates, as well as the resident alien, the fatherless, and the widow among you. 12 Remember that you were slaves in Egypt; carefully follow these statutes.

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“You shall count off seven weeks for you; from the time you begin to harvest the standing grain[a] you shall begin to count seven weeks. 10 And then you shall celebrate the Feast of Weeks for Yahweh your God with the measure of the freewill offering of your hand that you shall give just as Yahweh your God has blessed you. 11 And you shall rejoice before Yahweh your God, you and your son and your daughter and your slave and your slave woman and the Levite that is in your towns[b] and the alien and the orphan and the widow who are in your midst in the place that Yahweh your God will choose to let his name dwell there. 12 And you shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and so you shall diligently observe[c] these rules.

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Notas al pie

  1. Deuteronomy 16:9 Literally “from the beginning of the sickle against the standing grain”
  2. Deuteronomy 16:11 Literally “gates”
  3. Deuteronomy 16:12 Literally “you shall observe and do”