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Verse	Translation	Text
Le 23:15	Strong Concordance	And ye shall count [05608] unto you from the morrow [04283] after the sabbath [07676], from the day [03117] that ye brought [0935] the sheaf [06016] of the wave offering [08573]; seven [07651] sabbaths [07676] shall be [01961] complete [08549]:
	King James	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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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
FEAST OF PENTECOST. (Lev 23:15-22) ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the sabbath--that is, after the first day of the passover week, which was observed as a Sabbath.

A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]

FEAST OF PENTECOST. (Lev 23:15-22)

ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the sabbath--that is, after the first day of the passover week, which was observed as a Sabbath.

Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78]
The law for the special observance of the feast of Harvest (Exo 23:16) is added here without any fresh introductory formula, to show at the very outset the close connection between the two feasts. Seven whole weeks, or fifty days, were to be reckoned from the day of the offering of the sheaf, and then the day of first-fruits (Num 28:26) or feast of Weeks (Exo 34:22; Deu 16:10) was to be celebrated. From this reckoning the feast received the name of Pentecost (ἡ πεντηκοστή, Act 2:1). That שׁבּתות (Lev 23:15) signifies weeks, like שׁבעות in Deu 16:9, and τὰ σάββατα in the Gospels (e.g., Mat 28:1), is evident from the predicate תּמימת, "complete," which would be quite unsuitable if Sabbath-days were intended, as a long period might be reckoned by half weeks instead of whole, but certainly not by half Sabbath-days. Consequently "the morrow after the seventh Sabbath" (Lev 23:16) is the day after the seventh week, not after the seventh Sabbath. On this day, i.e., fifty days after the first day of Mazzoth, Israel was to offer a new meat-offering to the Lord, i.e., made of the fruit of the new harvest (Lev 26:10), "wave-loaves" from its dwellings, two of two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour baked leavened, like the bread which served for their daily food, "as first-fruits unto the Lord," and of the wheat-harvest (Exo 34:22), which fell in the second half of May and the first weeks of June (Robinson, Palestine), and therefore was finished as a whole by the feast of Weeks. The loaves differed from all the other meat-offerings, being made of leavened dough, because in them their daily bread was offered to the Lord, who had blessed the harvest, as a thank-offering for His blessing. They were therefore only given to the Lord symbolically by waving, and were then to belong to the priests (Lev 23:20). The injunction "out of your habitations" is not to be understood, as Calvin and others suppose, as signifying that every householder was to present two such loaves; it simply expresses the idea, that they were to be loaves made for the daily food of a household, and not prepared expressly for holy purposes.

Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78]

The law for the special observance of the feast of Harvest (Exo 23:16) is added here without any fresh introductory formula, to show at the very outset the close connection between the two feasts. Seven whole weeks, or fifty days, were to be reckoned from the day of the offering of the sheaf, and then the day of first-fruits (Num 28:26) or feast of Weeks (Exo 34:22; Deu 16:10) was to be celebrated. From this reckoning the feast received the name of Pentecost (ἡ πεντηκοστή, Act 2:1). That שׁבּתות (Lev 23:15) signifies weeks, like שׁבעות in Deu 16:9, and τὰ σάββατα in the Gospels (e.g., Mat 28:1), is evident from the predicate תּמימת, "complete," which would be quite unsuitable if Sabbath-days were intended, as a long period might be reckoned by half weeks instead of whole, but certainly not by half Sabbath-days. Consequently "the morrow after the seventh Sabbath" (Lev 23:16) is the day after the seventh week, not after the seventh Sabbath. On this day, i.e., fifty days after the first day of Mazzoth, Israel was to offer a new meat-offering to the Lord, i.e., made of the fruit of the new harvest (Lev 26:10), "wave-loaves" from its dwellings, two of two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour baked leavened, like the bread which served for their daily food, "as first-fruits unto the Lord," and of the wheat-harvest (Exo 34:22), which fell in the second half of May and the first weeks of June (Robinson, Palestine), and therefore was finished as a whole by the feast of Weeks. The loaves differed from all the other meat-offerings, being made of leavened dough, because in them their daily bread was offered to the Lord, who had blessed the harvest, as a thank-offering for His blessing. They were therefore only given to the Lord symbolically by waving, and were then to belong to the priests (Lev 23:20). The injunction "out of your habitations" is not to be understood, as Calvin and others suppose, as signifying that every householder was to present two such loaves; it simply expresses the idea, that they were to be loaves made for the daily food of a household, and not prepared expressly for holy purposes.

Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65]
From the morrow - From the sixteenth day of the month, and the second day of the feast of unleavened bread inclusively.

Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826
Ye 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.

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¹⁵ And ye shall count [05608] unto you from the morrow [04283] after the sabbath [07676], from the day [03117] that ye brought [0935] the sheaf [06016] of the wave offering [08573]; seven [07651] sabbaths [07676] shall be [01961] complete [08549]:
¹⁶ Even unto [05704] the morrow [04283] after the seventh [07637] sabbath [07676] shall ye number [05608] fifty [02572] days [03117]; and ye shall offer [07126] a new [02319] meat offering [04503] unto the LORD [03068].
¹⁷ Ye shall bring out [0935] of your habitations [04186] two [08147] wave [08573] loaves [03899] of two [08147] tenth deals [06241]: they shall be of fine flour [05560]; they shall be baken [0644] with leaven [02557]; they are the firstfruits [01061] unto the LORD [03068].
¹⁸ And ye shall offer [07126] with the bread [03899] seven [07651] lambs [03532] without blemish [08549] of the first [01121] year [08141], and one [0259] young [01241] [01121] bullock [06499], and two [08147] rams [0352]: they shall be for a burnt offering [05930] unto the LORD [03068], with their meat offering [04503], and their drink offerings [05262], even an offering made by fire [0801], of sweet [05207] savour [07381] unto the LORD [03068].
¹⁹ Then ye shall sacrifice [06213] one [0259] kid [08163] of the goats [05795] for a sin offering [02403], and two [08147] lambs [03532] of the first [01121] year [08141] for a sacrifice [02077] of peace offerings [08002].
²⁰ And the priest [03548] shall wave [05130] them with the bread [03899] of the firstfruits [01061] for a wave offering [08573] before [06440] the LORD [03068], with the two [08147] lambs [03532]: they shall be holy [06944] to the LORD [03068] for the priest [03548].
²¹ And ye shall proclaim [07121] on the selfsame [06106] day [03117], that it may be an holy [06944] convocation [04744] unto you: ye shall do [06213] no servile [05656] work [04399] therein: it shall be a statute [02708] for ever [05769] in all your dwellings [04186] throughout your generations [01755].
²² And when ye reap [07114] the harvest [07105] of your land [0776], thou shalt not make clean riddance [03615] of the corners [06285] of thy field [07704] when thou reapest [07114], neither shalt thou gather [03950] any gleaning [03951] of thy harvest [07105]: thou shalt leave [05800] them unto the poor [06041], and to the stranger [01616]: I am the LORD [03068] your God [0430].

²⁰ And the priest [03548] shall wave [05130] them with the bread [03899] of the firstfruits [01061] for a wave offering [08573] before [06440] the LORD [03068], with the two [08147] lambs [03532]: they shall be holy [06944] to the LORD [03068] for the priest [03548].

²² And thou shalt observe [06213] the feast [02282] of weeks [07620], of the firstfruits [01061] of wheat [02406] harvest [07105], and the feast [02282] of ingathering [0614] at the year's [08141] end [08622].

¹⁰ And ye shall eat [0398] old store [03462], and bring forth [03318] the old [03465] because [06440] of the new [02319].

¹⁶ Even unto [05704] the morrow [04283] after the seventh [07637] sabbath [07676] shall ye number [05608] fifty [02572] days [03117]; and ye shall offer [07126] a new [02319] meat offering [04503] unto the LORD [03068].

¹ In the end [1161] [3796] of the sabbath [4521], as it began to dawn [2020] toward [1519] the first [3391] day of the week [4521], came [2064] Mary [3137] Magdalene [3094] and [2532] the other [243] Mary [3137] to see [2334] the sepulchre [5028].

⁹ Seven [07651] weeks [07620] shalt thou number [05608] unto thee: begin [02490] to number [05608] the seven [07651] weeks [07620] from such time as thou beginnest [02490] to put the sickle [02770] to the corn [07054].

¹ And [2532] when [1722] the day [2250] of Pentecost [4005] was fully come [4845], they were [2258] all [537] with one accord [3661] in [1909] one place [846].

¹⁰ And thou shalt keep [06213] the feast [02282] of weeks [07620] unto the LORD [03068] thy God [0430] with a tribute [04530] of a freewill offering [05071] of thine hand [03027], which thou shalt give [05414] unto the LORD thy God, according as the LORD [03068] thy God [0430] hath blessed [01288] thee:

²⁶ Also in the day [03117] of the firstfruits [01061], when ye bring [07126] a new [02319] meat offering [04503] unto the LORD [03068], after your weeks [07620] be out, ye shall have an holy [06944] convocation [04744]; ye shall do [06213] no servile [05656] work [04399]:

¹⁶ And the feast [02282] of harvest [07105], the firstfruits [01061] of thy labours [04639], which thou hast sown [02232] in the field [07704]: and the feast [02282] of ingathering [0614], which is in the end [03318] of the year [08141], when thou hast gathered [0622] in thy labours [04639] out of the field [07704].

¹ And [1161] it came to pass [1096] on [1722] the second [1207] sabbath [4521] after the first [1207], that he [846] went [1279] through [1223] the corn fields [4702]; and [2532] his [846] disciples [3101] plucked [5089] the ears of corn [4719], and [2532] did eat [2068], rubbing [5597] them in their hands [5495].