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Leviticus 23:16

You must count fifty days—until the day after the seventh Sabbath—and then you must present a new grain offering to the Lord .

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Harvest;   Leaven (Yeast);   Offerings;   Pentecost;   Thompson Chain Reference - Feast;   Feasts;   Hebrew;   Pentecost, Day of;   Weeks, Feast of;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Feast of Pentecost, the;   First Fruits, the;   Weeks;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Farming;   Feasts;   Firstfruits;   Leaven;   Pentecost;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Priest, Priesthood;   Sabbath;   Worship;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Convocation;   First Fruits;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Burnt Offering;   Pentecost;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Number;   Pentecost;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Festivals;   Leviticus;   Pentateuch;   Sanctification;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Canon of the Old Testament;   Congregation, Assembly;   Crimes and Punishments;   Deuteronomy;   Hexateuch;   Holiness;   Law;   Leviticus;   Pentecost, Feast of;   Priests and Levites;   Sanctification, Sanctify;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Pentecost ;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Feasts;   Harvest;   Offerings, the;   Pentecost;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Feasts;   First-fruits;   Pentecost;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Sabbath and Feasts;   Time Given to Religion;   Worship, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Leviticus;   Morrow after the Sabbath;   Pentecost;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Festivals;   First-Fruits;   Jubilees, Book of;   Karaites and Karaism;   Law, Reading from the;   Menaḥot;   Mishnah;   Passover;   Pentecost;   Pharisees;   Purgatory;   Sacrifice;   Sadducees;   Sidra;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
even to the next day after the seventh Shabbat shall you number fifty days; and you shall offer a new meal-offering to the LORD.
King James Version
Even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall offer a new meat offering unto the Lord .
Lexham English Bible
Until the day after the seventh Sabbath you shall count fifty days; then you shall present a new grain offering for Yahweh.
New Century Version
On the fiftieth day, the first day after the seventh week, you will bring a new grain offering to the Lord .
Amplified Bible
'You shall count fifty days to the day after the seventh Sabbath; then you shall present a new grain offering to the LORD.
New American Standard Bible
'You shall count fifty days to the day after the seventh Sabbath; then you shall present a new grain offering to the LORD.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Vnto ye morow after the seuenth Sabbath shall ye nomber fiftie dayes: then yee shall bring a newe meate offring vnto the Lord.
Legacy Standard Bible
You shall count fifty days to the day after the seventh sabbath; then you shall bring a new grain offering near to Yahweh.
Contemporary English Version
Do this exactly fifty days later, which is the day following the seventh Sabbath.
Complete Jewish Bible
until the day after the seventh week; you are to count fifty days; and then you are to present a new grain offering to Adonai .
Darby Translation
even unto the morning after the seventh sabbath shall ye count fifty days; and ye shall present a new oblation to Jehovah.
Easy-to-Read Version
On the Sunday following the seventh week (that is, 50 days later), you will bring a new grain offering to the Lord .
English Standard Version
You shall count fifty days to the day after the seventh Sabbath. Then you shall present a grain offering of new grain to the Lord .
George Lamsa Translation
Even to the morrow after the seventh sabbath you shall count fifty days; and you shall offer a meal offering of new wheat to the LORD.
Good News Translation
On the fiftieth day, the day after the seventh Sabbath, present to the Lord another new offering of grain.
Christian Standard Bible®
You are to count fifty days until the day after the seventh Sabbath and then present an offering of new grain to the Lord.
Literal Translation
the next day after the seventh sabbath, you shall number fifty days; and you shall bring near a new food offering to Jehovah;
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
vntyll the nexte daie after ye seueth weke, namely, fiftie daies, shal ye nombre, and offre new meatofferynges vnto the LORDE.
American Standard Version
even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall offer a new meal-offering unto Jehovah.
Bible in Basic English
Let fifty days be numbered, to the day after the seventh Sabbath; then you are to give a new meal offering to the Lord.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Euen vnto the morowe after ye seuenth Sabboth shall ye number fiftie dayes, and ye shall bryng a newe meate offeryng vnto the Lorde.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
even unto the morrow after the seventh week shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall present a new meal-offering unto the LORD.
King James Version (1611)
Euen vnto the morrow after the seuenth Sabbath, shall ye number fifty dayes, and ye shall offer a new meat offering vnto the Lord.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
until the morrow after the last week ye shall number fifty days, and shall bring a new meat-offering to the Lord.
English Revised Version
even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall offer a new meal offering unto the LORD.
Berean Standard Bible
You shall count fifty days until the day after the seventh Sabbath, and then present an offering of new grain to the LORD.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
seuene fulle woukis, til to the tothir day of fillyng of the seuenthe wouk, that is, fifti dayes; and so ye schulen
Young's Literal Translation
unto the morrow of the seventh sabbath ye do number fifty days, and ye have brought near a new present to Jehovah;
Update Bible Version
even to the next day after the seventh Sabbath you shall number fifty days; and you shall offer a new meal-offering to Yahweh.
Webster's Bible Translation
Even to the morrow after the seventh sabbath shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall offer a new meat-offering to the LORD.
World English Bible
even to the next day after the seventh Sabbath shall you number fifty days; and you shall offer a new meal-offering to Yahweh.
New King James Version
Count fifty days to the day after the seventh Sabbath; then you shall offer a new grain offering to the LORD.
New Living Translation
Keep counting until the day after the seventh Sabbath, fifty days later. Then present an offering of new grain to the Lord .
New Life Bible
Number fifty days to the day after the seventh Day of Rest. Then give a new grain gift to the Lord.
New Revised Standard
You shall count until the day after the seventh sabbath, fifty days; then you shall present an offering of new grain to the Lord .
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
until on the morrow of the seventh sabbath, ye count fifty days, - then shall ye bring near a new meal-offering unto Yahweh.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Even unto the morrow after the seventh week be expired, that is to say, fifty days: and so you shall offer a new sacrifice to the Lord.
Revised Standard Version
counting fifty days to the morrow after the seventh sabbath; then you shall present a cereal offering of new grain to the LORD.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
'You shall count fifty days to the day after the seventh sabbath; then you shall present a new grain offering to the LORD.

Contextual Overview

15 "‘You must count for yourselves seven weeks from the day after the Sabbath, from the day you bring the wave offering sheaf; they must be complete weeks. 16 You must count fifty days—until the day after the seventh Sabbath—and then you must present a new grain offering to the Lord . 17 From the places where you live you must bring two loaves of bread for a wave offering; they must be made from two tenths of an ephah of fine wheat flour, baked with yeast, as first fruits to the Lord . 18 Along with the loaves of bread, you must also present seven flawless yearling lambs, one young bull, and two rams. They are to be a burnt offering to the Lord along with their grain offering and drink offerings, a gift of a soothing aroma to the Lord . 19 You must also offer one male goat for a sin offering and two yearling lambs for a peace offering sacrifice, 20 and the priest is to wave them—the two lambs—along with the bread of the first fruits, as a wave offering before the Lord ; they will be holy to the Lord for the priest. 21 "‘On this very day you must proclaim an assembly; it is to be a holy assembly for you. You must not do any regular work. This is a perpetual statute in all the places where you live throughout your generations. 22 When you gather in the harvest of your land, you must not completely harvest the corner of your field, and you must not gather up the gleanings of your harvest. You must leave them for the poor and the foreigner. I am the Lord your God.'"

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Acts 2:1

Reciprocal: Exodus 19:1 - the third Exodus 23:14 - General Numbers 15:20 - the heave offering Deuteronomy 16:9 - General 2 Chronicles 31:7 - General

Cross-References

Genesis 23:15
"Hear me, my lord. The land is worth 400 pieces of silver, but what is that between me and you? So bury your dead."
Genesis 43:21
But when we came to the place where we spent the night, we opened our sacks and each of us found his money—the full amount—in the mouth of his sack. So we have returned it.
Exodus 30:13
Everyone who crosses over to those who are numbered is to pay this: a half shekel according to the shekel of the sanctuary (a shekel weighs twenty gerahs). The half shekel is to be an offering to the Lord .
Job 28:15
Fine gold cannot be given in exchange for it, nor can its price be weighed out in silver.
Jeremiah 32:9
So I bought the field at Anathoth from my cousin Hanamel. I weighed out seven ounces of silver and gave it to him to pay for it.
Ezekiel 45:12
The shekel will be twenty gerahs. Sixty shekels will be a mina for you.
Zechariah 11:12
Then I said to them, "If it seems good to you, pay me my wages, but if not, forget it." So they weighed out my payment—thirty pieces of silver.
Matthew 7:12
In everything, treat others as you would want them to treat you, for this fulfills the law and the prophets.
Romans 13:8
Owe no one anything, except to love one another, for the one who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.
Philippians 4:8
Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is worthy of respect, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if something is excellent or praiseworthy, think about these things.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath,.... Or weeks, forty nine days being counted, the following was the fiftieth day, or Pentecost:

shall ye number fifty days; from whence this feast had the name of Pentecost, Acts 2:1; all in Israel were obliged to number those days, except women and servants t: the manner of doing it was this u; on the night of the second (day of the passover), after the evening prayer, they began to number; but if anyone forgot to number at the beginning of the night, he went and numbered all the night; for the commandment is for everyone to number by himself, and he ought to number standing, and to bless first, and number the days and weeks: How? on the first day he says, This is one day, until he comes to seven days, and then he says, This is the seventh day, which is one week; and on the eighth day he says, This is the eighth day, which is one week and one day, and so till he comes to the fourteenth; then he says, This is the fourteenth day, which make two weeks; and in this way he numbers, and goes on until the forty ninth day: and ye shall offer a new meat offering unto the Lord; that is, of new corn, as the Targum of Jonathan and Jarchi explain it, and this was of wheat; for it was the offering for the wheat harvest, which was offered on the fiftieth day from the offering of the sheaf or omer of the barley harvest.

t Maimon. Hilchot Tamidin Umusaphim, c. 7. sect. 24. u Schulchan Aruch, par. 1. c. 489. sect. 1. & Lebush, ut supra, (c. 489.) sect. 1.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

These verses contain a distinct command regarding the religious services immediately connected with the grain harvest, given by anticipation against the time when the people were to possess the promised land.

Leviticus 23:10

Sheaf - The original word, “omer”, means either a sheaf Deuteronomy 24:19; Ruth 2:7, or a measure Exodus 16:16. Our version is probably right in this place. The offering which was waved Leviticus 7:30 was most likely a small sheaf of barley, the grain which is first ripe. The first fruits of the wheat harvest were offered seven weeks later in the loaves of Pentecost. See Leviticus 23:15-17. The two offerings thus figure the very commencement and the completion of the grain harvest; compare Ruth 1:22; Ruth 2:23.

Leviticus 23:11

On the morrow after the sabbath - It is most probable that these words denote the 16th of Abib, the day after the first day of holy convocation (see Leviticus 23:5-8 note), and that this was called “the Sabbath of the Passover”, or, “the Sabbath of unleavened bread”.

Leviticus 23:13

Two tenth deals - Two omers, or tenth parts of an ephah, about a gallon and three quarters. See Leviticus 19:36 note. The double quantity (contrast Exodus 29:40; Numbers 15:4; Numbers 28:19-21), implying greater liberality, was appropriate in a harvest feast.

Drink offering - This and Leviticus 23:18, Leviticus 23:37 are the only places in the book of Leviticus in which drink-offerings are mentioned. See the Exodus 29:40 note.

Leviticus 23:14

Bread ... parched corn ... green ears - These are the three forms in which grain was commonly eaten. The old name, Abib, signified “the month of green ears.” See Joshua 5:11.

Leviticus 23:15

The morrow after the sabbath - See Leviticus 23:11 note.

Seven sabbaths - More properly, seven weeks (compare Deuteronomy 16:9). The word Sabbath, in the language of the New Testament as well as the Old, is used for “week” (Leviticus 25:8; Matthew 28:1; Luke 18:12, etc.).

Leviticus 23:16

The morrow after the seventh week was the 50th day after the conclusion of a week of weeks. The day is called in the Old Testament, “the feast of harvest” Exodus 23:16, “the feast of weeks,” “the feast of the first fruits of wheat harvest” Exodus 34:22; Deuteronomy 16:10, and “the day of the first fruits” Numbers 28:26. The word “Pentecost” used in the heading of this chapter in English Bibles is found only in the Apocrypha and the New Testament, Tobit 2:1; 2 Macc. 12:32; Acts 2:1; Acts 20:16; 1 Corinthians 16:8.

Leviticus 23:17

Habitations - Not strictly houses, but places of abode in a general sense. It seems here to denote the land in which the Israelites were to dwell so as to express that the flour was to be of home growth. The two loaves were to be merely waved before Yahweh and then to become the property of the priests. No bread containing leaven could be offered on the altar (see the Leviticus 2:11 note). The object of this offering seems to have been to present to the Lord the best produce of the earth in the actual condition in which it is most useful for the support of human life. It thus represented in the fittest manner the thanksgiving which was proper for the season. The loaves appear to be distinctively called “the first fruits for Yahweh,” and references to them are found in Rom 11:16; 1 Corinthians 15:20, 1 Corinthians 15:23; James 1:18; Revelation 14:4, etc. As these loaves offered before Yahweh sanctified the harvest of the year, so has “Christ the firstfruits” sanctified the Church, which, in its union with Him as the firstfruits, becomes also the Sanctifier of the world. See the services for Whitsuntide.

Leviticus 23:18

More properly, seven sheep of a year old (to be distinguished from the lamb in Leviticus 23:12), and a young bull which might be from one to three years old. Compare Numbers 28:26-27.

Leviticus 23:19

Properly, a shaggy he-goat Leviticus 4:23 and two sheep of a year old.

Leviticus 23:20

When living creatures were “waved” Leviticus 7:30 before Yahweh, it is said that they were led to and fro before the tabernacle according to an established form.

Leviticus 23:21

The self-same day - The Feast of Weeks was distinguished from the two other great annual feasts by its consisting, according to the Law, of only a single day. But in later times it is said that during the following six days the Israelites used to bring their offerings to the temple, and to give the week something of a festal character in the suspension of mourning for the dead.

Leviticus 23:22

The repetition of the Law (see the margin reference) is appropriately connected with the thanksgiving for the completed grain harvest.


 
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