Leviticus 23:10-11

23:10 “Speak to the Israelites and tell them, ‘When you enter the land that I am about to give to you and you gather in its harvest, ¹  then you must bring the sheaf of the first portion of your harvest ²  to the priest, 23:11 and he must wave the sheaf before the Lord to be accepted for your benefit ³  – on the day after the Sabbath the priest is to wave it. ⁴ 

Leviticus 25:8

Regulations for the Jubilee Year of Release

25:8 “‘You must count off ⁵  seven weeks of years, seven times seven years, ⁶  and the days of the seven weeks of years will amount to forty-nine years. ⁷ 

Exodus 34:22

34:22 “You must observe ⁸  the Feast of Weeks – the firstfruits of the harvest of wheat – and the Feast of Ingathering at the end ⁹  of the year.

Deuteronomy 16:9-10

The Festival of Weeks

16:9 You must count seven weeks; you must begin to count them ¹⁰  from the time you begin to harvest the standing grain. 16:10 Then you are to celebrate the Festival of Weeks ¹¹  before the Lord your God with the voluntary offering ¹²  that you will bring, in proportion to how he ¹³  has blessed you.

[23:10]  ¹ tn Heb “and you harvest its harvest.”

[23:10]  ² tn Heb “the sheaf of the first of your harvest.”

[23:11]  ³ tn Heb “for your acceptance.”

[23:11]  ⁴ sn See Lev 7:30 for a note on the “waving” of a “wave offering.”

[25:8]  ⁵ tn Heb “And you shall count off for yourself.”

[25:8]  ⁶ tn Heb “seven years seven times.”

[25:8]  ⁷ tn Heb “and they shall be for you, the days of the seven Sabbaths of years, forty-nine years.”

[34:22]  ⁸ tn The imperfect tense means “you will do”; it is followed by the preposition with a suffix to express the ethical dative to stress the subject.

[34:22]  ⁹ tn The expression is “the turn of the year,” which is parallel to “the going out of the year,” and means the end of the agricultural season.

[16:9]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “the seven weeks.” The translation uses a pronoun to avoid redundancy in English.

[16:10]  ¹¹ 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”).

[16:10]  ¹² tn Heb “the sufficiency of the offering of your hand.”

[16:10]  ¹³ tn Heb “the Lord your God.” See note on “he” in 16:1.