Deuteronomy 16:9-12

New American Standard Bible

⁹“^(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. ¹⁰Then 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; ¹¹and 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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Deuteronomy 16:10 Lit perform
Deuteronomy 16:10 Or freewill offering
Deuteronomy 16:11 Lit gates
Deuteronomy 16:11 Or fatherless
Deuteronomy 16:12 Lit perform these

Deuteronomy 16:9-12

New King James Version

The Feast of Weeks Reviewed^(A)

⁹“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. ¹⁰Then you shall keep the ^(B)Feast of Weeks to the Lord your God with the tribute of a freewill offering from your hand, which you shall give ^(C)as the Lord your God blesses you. ¹¹^(D)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. ¹²^(E)And you shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and you shall be careful to observe these statutes.