Text -- Deuteronomy 16:9-12 (NET)

The Festival of Weeks

16:9 You must count seven weeks; you must begin to count them from the time you begin to harvest the standing grain. 16:10 Then you are to celebrate the Festival of Weeks before the Lord your God with the voluntary offering that you will bring, in proportion to how he has blessed you. 16:11 You shall rejoice before him– you, your son, your daughter, your male and female slaves, the Levites in your villages, the resident foreigners, the orphans, and the widows among you– in the place where the Lord chooses to locate his name. 16:12 Furthermore, remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and so be careful to observe these statutes.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Deu 16:9

¹ tn Heb “the seven weeks.” The translation uses a pronoun to avoid redundancy in English.

NET Notes: Deu 16:10

¹ tn The Hebrew phrase חַג שָׁבֻעוֹת (khag shavu’ot) is otherwise known in the OT (Exod 23:16) as קָצִיר (qatsir, “harvest”) and in the NT as πεντηχοστή (penthcosth, “Pentecost”).

² tn Heb “the sufficiency of the offering of your hand.”

³ tn Heb “the Lord your God.” See note on “he” in 16:1.

NET Notes: Deu 16:11

¹ tn Heb “the Lord your God.” See note on “he” in 16:1.

² tn Heb “gates.”