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Leviticus 23:16

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You shall count off fifty days until the day after the seventh Sabbath, and then present an offering of new grain to the LORD.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall offer a new meal-offering unto Jehovah.

KJV

Even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall offer a new meat offering unto the Lord.

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This verse in Leviticus 23

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

you are to count off seven full weeks

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.

This site's exposition

You shall count off fifty days

Adam Clarke sets the count from the sixteenth day of the first month to the sixth of the third. He adds that the fiftieth day is the one called Pentecost, a name taken from the Septuagint, the Greek Old Testament. The new grain is the wheat harvest.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath,....

How the passage was read

On Leviticus 23:1-44

On 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

On the verses either side of this one

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.
Ramban: Spain, 1194–1270 · Ramban on Leviticus 23:15:1, via Sefaria, Commentary on the Torah by Ramban (Nachmanides). Translated and annotated by Charles B. Chavel. New York, Shilo Pub. House, 1971-1976

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

11 Hebrew words

Every 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.

  • עַ֣דuntil

    ʾadH5704 →1261 times

  • מִֽמָּחֳרַ֤תfrom [the] next day of

    mimochoratH4283 →32 times

  • הַשַּׁבָּת֙the sabbath

    hashabatH7676 →110 times

  • הַשְּׁבִיעִ֔ת<the> seventh

    hasheviitH7637 →98 times

  • תִּסְפְּר֖וּyou will count

    tisperuH5608 →159 times

  • חֲמִשִּׁ֣יםfifty

    chamishimH2572 →163 times

  • י֑וֹםday[s]

    yomH3117 →2304 times

  • וְהִקְרַבְתֶּ֛םand you will present

    vehikravtemH7126 →280 times

  • מִנְחָ֥הa grain offering

    minchahH4503 →211 times

  • חֲדָשָׁ֖הnew

    chadashahH2319 →

  • לַיהוָֽה׃to Yahweh

    layahwehH3068 →6520 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

3 in all, six open

The walk

8 stops

Each 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

    Acts 2:1

    When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place.

    it leads to

    • Romans 15:6

      so that with one mind and one voice you may glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

    • Philippians 2:2

      then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being united in spirit and purpose.

    • Acts 1:13–15

      When they arrived, they went to the upper room where they were staying: Peter and John, James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James son of Alphaeus, Simon the Zealot, and Judas…

    • Philippians 1:27

      Nevertheless, conduct yourselves in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ. Then, whether I come and see you or only hear about you in my absence, I will know that you stand firm…

    • 1 Corinthians 16:8

      But I will stay in Ephesus until Pentecost,

  • Through

    Numbers 28:26

    On 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.

    • 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,…

    • 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…

Where this verse is studied

About Leviticus

The Scapegoat, William Holman Hunt, 1854. Public domain.
The Scapegoat, William Holman Hunt, 1854. Public domain.
Leviticus: the study guide →Read Leviticus 23 →

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.

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