(A)You shall count seven weeks for yourself; you shall begin to count seven weeks from the time you begin to put the sickle to the standing grain. 10 Then you shall [a]celebrate the Feast of Weeks to the Lord your God with a [b]voluntary offering of your hand in a proportional amount, which you shall give just as the Lord your God blesses you; 11 and you shall (B)rejoice before the Lord your God, you, your son and your daughter, and your male and female slaves, and (C)the Levite who is in your [c]town, and (D)the stranger, the [d]orphan, and the widow who are in your midst, at the place where the Lord your God chooses to establish His name. 12 (E)You shall also remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and you shall be careful and [e]comply with these statutes.

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Notas al pie

  1. Deuteronomy 16:10 Lit perform
  2. Deuteronomy 16:10 Or freewill offering
  3. Deuteronomy 16:11 Lit gates
  4. Deuteronomy 16:11 Or fatherless
  5. Deuteronomy 16:12 Lit perform these

The Feast of Weeks

(A)“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 (B)the Feast of Weeks to the Lord your God with (C)the tribute of a freewill offering from your hand, which you shall give (D)as the Lord your God blesses you. 11 And (E)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 (F)You shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt; and you shall be careful to observe these statutes.

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