Leviticus 23:15
in Leviticus 23From the day after the Sabbath, the day you brought the sheaf of the wave offering, you are to count off seven full weeks.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the sabbath, from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave-offering; seven sabbaths shall there be complete:
KJV
And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the sabbath, from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven sabbaths shall be complete:
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This verse in Leviticus 23
Commentary
3 notes on this verseYe shall count unto you - seven Sabbaths - That is, from the sixteenth of the first month to the sixth of the third month. These seven weeks, called here Sabbaths, were to be complete, i. e., the forty-nine days must be finished, and the next day, the fiftieth, is what, from the Septuagint, we call pentecost. See the note on Luk 6:1.
This site's exposition
ye shall count unto you from the morrow
on Leviticus 23:15-16
This is the one appointed time in the chapter with no date of its own. It is located by counting, seven sabbaths complete and then the morrow, fifty days measured out from the sheaf, so the day arrives only because somebody kept count. Acts 2:1 places the outpouring of the Spirit on the day when this fiftieth day was fully come.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the sabbath,....
How the passage was read
On Leviticus 23:1-44On Leviticus 23:1-44
The year Israel keeps
This chapter is the calendar of the whole Jewish year, and every feast in it is still on the calendar today. In order: the weekly Sabbath; Passover and Unleavened Bread in spring (now kept as the seder meal and a week without leavened bread); Firstfruits (the first sheaf of barley waved before God); Weeks, in Hebrew Shavuot, fifty days later (Christians know the Greek name: Pentecost); then in autumn the Day of Trumpets (now Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year, announced by the ram's-horn trumpet called a shofar), the Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur, the great fast), and Tabernacles, in Hebrew Sukkot, when families still build and eat in leafy backyard booths for a week, remembering the wilderness.
So when the New Testament says Jesus or Paul went up for “the feast,” it means one of these appointments: the same calendar, kept for over three thousand years.
What the Jewish commentators add
AND YE SHALL COUNT ‘LACHEM’ (UNTO YOU). The meaning thereof is similar to the expression And ye shall take ‘lachem,’ 264 Further, Verse. thus establishing that the counting [of the forty-nine days of the omer ] and the taking [of the lulav, ethrog etc.
This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.
Sources: The Feasts of the LORD (this site's study of all seven) · Mishnah Rosh Hashanah 1:1 (the four new years)
Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 5 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.
The words behind it
13 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וּסְפַרְתֶּ֤ם | usefartem | and you will count | H5608 → | 159 times |
| לָכֶם֙ | lakhem | for <the> yourselves | ||
| מִמָּחֳרַ֣ת | mimochorat | from [the] next day of | H4283 → | 32 times |
| הַשַּׁבָּ֔ת | hashabat | the sabbath | H7676 → | 110 times |
| מִיּוֹם֙ | miyom | from [the] day | H3117 → | 2304 times |
| הֲבִ֣יאֲכֶ֔ם | haviakhem | brought you | H935 → | 2568 times |
| אֶת־ | ʾet- | <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| עֹ֖מֶר | ʾomer | [the] sheaf of | H6016 → | 14 times |
| הַתְּנוּפָ֑ה | hatenufah | the wave-offering | H8573 → | 30 times |
| שֶׁ֥בַע | sheva' | seven | H7651 → | 394 times |
| שַׁבָּת֖וֹת | shabatot | sabbaths | H7676 → | 110 times |
| תְּמִימֹ֥ת | temimot | complete | H8549 → | 91 times |
| תִּהְיֶֽינָה׃ | tihyeinah | they will be | H1961 → | 3559 times |
וּסְפַרְתֶּ֤םand you will count
usefartemH5608 →159 times
לָכֶם֙for <the> yourselves
lakhem
מִמָּחֳרַ֣תfrom [the] next day of
mimochoratH4283 →32 times
הַשַּׁבָּ֔תthe sabbath
hashabatH7676 →110 times
מִיּוֹם֙from [the] day
miyomH3117 →2304 times
הֲבִ֣יאֲכֶ֔םbrought you
haviakhemH935 →2568 times
אֶת־<obj.>
ʾet-H853 →10935 times
עֹ֖מֶר[the] sheaf of
ʾomerH6016 →14 times
הַתְּנוּפָ֑הthe wave-offering
hatenufahH8573 →30 times
שֶׁ֥בַעseven
sheva'H7651 →394 times
שַׁבָּת֖וֹתsabbaths
shabatotH7676 →110 times
תְּמִימֹ֥תcomplete
temimotH8549 →91 times
תִּהְיֶֽינָה׃they will be
tihyeinahH1961 →3559 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Exodus 34:22And you are to celebrate the Feast of Weeks with the firstfruits of the wheat harvest, and the Feast of Ingathering at the turn of the year.
it leads to
- Exodus 23:16
You are also to keep the Feast of Harvest with the firstfruits of the produce from what you sow in the field. And keep the Feast of Ingathering at the end of the year,…
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Deuteronomy 16:10–15
And you shall celebrate the Feast of Weeks to the LORD your God with a freewill offering that you give in proportion to how the LORD your God has blessed you,
- John 7:2
However, the Jewish Feast of Tabernacles was near.
- Exodus 23:16
Through
Numbers 28:26On the day of firstfruits, when you present an offering of new grain to the LORD during the Feast of Weeks, you are to hold a sacred assembly; you must not do any regular…
it leads to
- Exodus 34:22
And you are to celebrate the Feast of Weeks with the firstfruits of the wheat harvest, and the Feast of Ingathering at the turn of the year.
- Leviticus 23:10
“Speak to the Israelites and say, ‘When you enter the land that I am giving you and you reap its harvest, you are to bring to the priest a sheaf of the firstfruits of…
- Deuteronomy 16:9–11
You are to count off seven weeks from the time you first put the sickle to the standing grain.
- Leviticus 23:15–21
From the day after the Sabbath, the day you brought the sheaf of the wave offering, you are to count off seven full weeks.
- Exodus 34:22
Through
Leviticus 25:8And you shall count off seven Sabbaths of years—seven times seven years—so that the seven Sabbaths of years amount to forty-nine years.
it leads to
- Genesis 2:2
And by the seventh day God had finished the work He had been doing; so on that day He rested from all His work.
- Genesis 2:2
Where this verse is studied
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About Leviticus
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch.