Deuteronomy 16:9

Easy To Read Version

“You must count seven weeks from the time you began to harvest the grain.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 8:13

Solomon offered sacrifices {\cf2\super [140]} every day the way Moses commanded. Sacrifices were to be offered on Sabbath days, {\cf2\super [141]} on the New Moon {\cf2\super [142]} celebrations, and on the three yearly holidays. The three yearly holidays were the Festival of Unleavened Bread, the Festival of Weeks, and the Festival of Shelters.

Exodus 23:16

“The second holiday will be the Festival of Pentecost. This holiday will be {during the early summer time} when you begin harvesting the crops you planted in your fields.

Exodus 34:22

“Celebrate the Festival of Weeks. [348] Use the first grain from the wheat harvest for this festival. And in the fall [349] celebrate the Festival of Harvest. [350]

Acts 2:1

When the day of Pentecost {\cf2\super [17]} came, they were all together in one place.

1 Corinthians 16:8

But I will stay at Ephesus until Pentecost. {\cf2\super [120]}

Deuteronomy 16:10

Then celebrate the Festival of Weeks for the Lord your God. Do this by bringing him some special gift you want to bring. Decide how much to give by thinking about how much the Lord your God has blessed you.

Deuteronomy 16:16

“Three times a year all your men must come to meet with the Lord your God at the special place he will choose. They must come for the Festival of Unleavened Bread, the Festival of Weeks, and the Festival of Shelters. Every person that comes to meet with the Lord must bring a gift.

Hebrews 2:1

So we must be more careful to follow the things that we were taught. We must be careful so that we will not be pulled away \{from the true way\}.

Ruth 2:23

So Ruth continued working closely with the women servants of Boaz. She gathered grain until the barley harvest was finished. She also worked there through the end of the wheat harvest. Ruth continued living with Naomi, her mother-in-law.