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Deuteronomy 16:9

You must count seven weeks; you must begin to count them from the time you begin to harvest the standing grain.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Pentecost;   Thankfulness;   Thompson Chain Reference - Agriculture;   Agriculture-Horticulture;   Sickles;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Agriculture or Husbandry;   Feast of Pentecost, the;   Reaping;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Pentecost;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Farming;   Feasts;   Poor;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Day;   Feasts and Festivals of Israel;   Widow;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Pentecost;   Seven;   Sickle;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Passover;   Pentecost;   Revelation of John, the;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Festivals;   Harvest;   Tools;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Agriculture;   Crimes and Punishments;   Deuteronomy;   Passover and Feast of Unleavened Bread;   Sickle;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Agriculture;   Pentecost ;   Tares ;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Pentecost;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Weeks;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Sabbath and Feasts;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Passover;   Pentecost;   Poor;   Reaping;   Sickle;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Agriculture;   Atonement, Day of;   Ceremonies and the Ceremonial Law;   Deuteronomy;   Happiness;   Harvest;   Joy;   New-Year;   Numbers and Numerals;   Pentecost;   Week;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
“You are to count seven weeks, counting the weeks from the time the sickle is first put to the standing grain.
Hebrew Names Version
Seven weeks shall you number to you: from the time you begin to put the sickle to the standing grain shall you begin to number seven weeks.
King James Version
Seven weeks shalt thou number unto thee: begin to number the seven weeks from such time as thou beginnest to put the sickle to the corn.
Lexham English Bible
"You shall count off seven weeks for you; from the time you begin to harvest the standing grain you shall begin to count seven weeks.
English Standard Version
"You shall count seven weeks. Begin to count the seven weeks from the time the sickle is first put to the standing grain.
New Century Version
Count seven weeks from the time you begin to harvest the grain,
Amplified Bible
"You shall count seven weeks for yourself; you shall begin to count seven weeks from the time you first put the sickle to the standing grain.
New American Standard Bible
"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.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Seuen weekes shalt thou nomber vnto thee, and shalt beginne to nomber ye seuen weekes, when thou beginnest to put the sickel to ye corne:
Legacy Standard Bible
"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.
Contemporary English Version
Moses said to Israel: Seven weeks after you start your grain harvest,
Complete Jewish Bible
"You are to count seven weeks; you are to begin counting seven weeks from the time you first put your sickle to the standing grain.
Darby Translation
Seven weeks shalt thou count: from the beginning of putting the sickle into the corn shalt thou begin to count seven weeks.
Easy-to-Read Version
"You must count seven weeks from the time you begin to harvest the grain.
George Lamsa Translation
You shall count seven weeks to yourselves; begin to count the seven weeks from the time you begin to put the sickle to the standing grain.
Good News Translation
"Count seven weeks from the time that you begin to harvest the grain,
Literal Translation
You shall number to yourself seven weeks. When the sickle begins to reap in the standing grain, you shall begin to number seven weeks.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Seuen wekes shalt thou nombre vnto ye, and begynne to nombre whan the syccle begynneth in the corne,
American Standard Version
Seven weeks shalt thou number unto thee: from the time thou beginnest to put the sickle to the standing grain shalt thou begin to number seven weeks.
Bible in Basic English
Let seven weeks be numbered from the first day when the grain is cut.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Seuen weekes shalt thou number vnto thee, and begynne to number the seuen weekes, when thou begynnest to put the sicle to the corne:
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Seven weeks shalt thou number unto thee; from the time the sickle is first put to the standing corn shalt thou begin to number seven weeks.
King James Version (1611)
Seuen weekes shalt thou number vnto thee: beginne to number the seuen weekes, from such time as thou beginnest to put the sickle to the corne.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Seven weeks shalt thou number to thyself; when thou hast begun to put the sickle to the corn, thou shalt begin to number seven weeks.
English Revised Version
Seven weeks shalt thou number unto thee: from the time thou beginnest to put the sickle to the standing corn shalt thou begin to number seven weeks.
Berean Standard Bible
You are to count off seven weeks from the time you first put the sickle to the standing grain.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Thou schalt noumbre to thee seuene woukis, fro that dai in which thou settidist a sikil in to the corn;
Young's Literal Translation
`Seven weeks thou dost number to thee; from the beginning of the sickle among the standing corn thou dost begin to number seven weeks,
Update Bible Version
Seven weeks you shall number to yourself: from the time you begin to put the sickle to the standing grain you shall begin to number seven weeks.
Webster's Bible Translation
Seven weeks shalt thou number to thee: begin to number the seven weeks from [the time when] thou beginnest [to put] the sickle to the corn.
World English Bible
Seven weeks shall you number to you: from the time you begin to put the sickle to the standing grain shall you begin to number seven weeks.
New King James Version
Exodus 34:22; Leviticus 23:15-21; Numbers 28:26-31">[xr] "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.
New Living Translation
"Count off seven weeks from when you first begin to cut the grain at the time of harvest.
New Life Bible
"Number seven weeks. Begin to number seven weeks from the time you begin to cut the standing grain.
New Revised Standard
You shall count seven weeks; begin to count the seven weeks from the time the sickle is first put to the standing grain.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Seven weeks, shalt thou count unto thee, - from the beginning of thrusting in the sickle into the standing corn, shalt thou begin to count, seven weeks.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou shalt number unto thee seven weeks from that day, wherein thou didst put the sickle to the corn.
Revised Standard Version
"You shall count seven weeks; begin to count the seven weeks from the time you first put the sickle to the standing grain.
THE MESSAGE
Starting from the day you put the sickle to the ripe grain, count out seven weeks. Celebrate the Feast-of-Weeks to God , your God, by bringing your Freewill-Offering—give as generously as God , your God, has blessed you. Rejoice in the Presence of God , your God: you, your son, your daughter, your servant, your maid, the Levite who lives in your neighborhood, the foreigner, the orphan and widow among you; rejoice at the place God , your God, will set aside to be worshiped.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"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.

Contextual Overview

1 Observe the month Abib and keep the Passover to the Lord your God, for in that month he brought you out of Egypt by night. 2 You must sacrifice the Passover animal (from the flock or the herd) to the Lord your God in the place where he chooses to locate his name. 3 You must not eat any yeast with it; for seven days you must eat bread made without yeast, symbolic of affliction, for you came out of Egypt hurriedly. You must do this so you will remember for the rest of your life the day you came out of the land of Egypt. 4 There must not be a scrap of yeast within your land for seven days, nor can any of the meat you sacrifice on the evening of the first day remain until the next morning. 5 You may not sacrifice the Passover in just any of your villages that the Lord your God is giving you, 6 but you must sacrifice it in the evening in the place where he chooses to locate his name, at sunset, the time of day you came out of Egypt. 7 You must cook and eat it in the place the Lord your God chooses; you may return the next morning to your tents. 8 You must eat bread made without yeast for six days. The seventh day you are to hold an assembly for the Lord your God; you must not do any work on that day. 9 You must count seven weeks; you must begin to count them from the time you begin to harvest the standing grain. 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.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Deuteronomy 16:10, Deuteronomy 16:16, Exodus 23:16, Exodus 34:22, Leviticus 23:15, Leviticus 23:16, Numbers 28:26-30, 2 Chronicles 8:13, Acts 2:1, 1 Corinthians 16:8, Hebrews 2:1

Reciprocal: Leviticus 23:10 - and shall Numbers 22:17 - I will promote Joel 3:13 - the sickle Luke 6:1 - the second

Cross-References

Genesis 16:5
Then Sarai said to Abram, "You have brought this wrong on me! I allowed my servant to have sexual relations with you, but when she realized that she was pregnant, she despised me. May the Lord judge between you and me!"
Genesis 16:6
Abram said to Sarai, "Since your servant is under your authority, do to her whatever you think best." Then Sarai treated Hagar harshly, so she ran away from Sarai.
Ecclesiastes 10:4
If the anger of the ruler flares up against you, do not resign from your position, for a calm response can undo great offenses.
Ephesians 5:21
and submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ.
Titus 2:9
Slaves are to be subject to their own masters in everything, to do what is wanted and not talk back,

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Seven weeks then shalt thou number unto thee,.... And then another feast was to take place, called from hence the feast of weeks, and sometimes Pentecost, from its being the fiftieth day:

begin to number the seven weeks from such time as thou beginnest to put the sickle to the corn; for the sheaf of the wave offering, as the first fruits of barley harvest, which was done on the morrow after the sabbath in the passover week, and from thence seven weeks or fifty days were reckoned, and the fiftieth day was the feast here ordered to be kept; so the Targum of Jonathan,

"after the reaping of the sheaf ye shall begin to number seven weeks;''

see Leviticus 23:15.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Feast of Weeks; and Deuteronomy 16:13-17, Feast of Tabernacles. Nothing is here added to the rules given in Leviticus and Numbers except the clauses so often recurring in Deuteronomy and so characteristic of it, which restrict the public celebration of the festivals to the sanctuary, and enjoin that the enjoyments of them should be extended to the Levites, widows, orphans, etc.


 
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