Deuteronomy 16:9-10
The Festival of Weeks
9 You must count seven weeks; you must begin to count them ▼▼ Heb “the seven weeks.” The translation uses a pronoun to avoid redundancy in English.
from the time you begin to harvest the standing grain. 10Then you are to celebrate the Festival of Weeks ▼▼ 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 (pentēcostē, “Pentecost”).
before the Lord your God with the voluntary offering ▼▼ Heb “the sufficiency of the offering of your hand.”
that you will bring, in proportion to how he ▼ has blessed you.
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