Deuteronomy 16:9
Seven weeks shalt thou number unto thee: begin to number the seven weeks from such time as thou beginnest to put the sickle to the corn.
Deuteronomy 16:9 in other translations
| BSB | You are to count off seven weeks from the time you first put the sickle to the standing grain. |
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| WEB | You shall count for yourselves seven weeks. From the time you begin to put the sickle to the standing grain you shall begin to count seven weeks. |
| ASV | Seven weeks shalt thou number unto thee: from the time thou beginnest to put the sickle to the standing grain shalt thou begin to number seven weeks. |
| YLT | ‘Seven weeks thou dost number to thee; from the beginning of the sickle among the standing corn thou dost begin to number seven weeks, |
| DARBY | Seven weeks shalt thou count: from the beginning of putting the sickle into the corn shalt thou begin to count seven weeks. |
| BBE | Let seven weeks be numbered from the first day when the grain is cut. |
| Webster | Seven weeks shalt thou number to thee: begin to number the seven weeks from the time when thou beginnest to put the sickle to the corn. |
What does Deuteronomy 16:9 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Deuteronomy 16:9-12
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Deuteronomy 16:1-17
The laws for the three yearly feasts are here repeated; that of the Passover, that of the Pentecost, that of Tabernacles; and the general law concerning the people's attendance. Never should a believer forget his low estate of guilt and misery, his deliverance, and the price it cost the Redeemer; that gratitude and joy in the Lord may be mingled with sorrow for sin, and patience under the tribulations in his way to…
Deuteronomy 16:9 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Deuteronomy 16:9
- Exodus 34:22
And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, of the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the year’s end.
- Exodus 23:16
And the feast of harvest, the firstfruits of thy labours, which thou hast sown in the field: and the feast of ingathering, which is in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labours out of the field.
- Acts 2:1
And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place.
- Deuteronomy 16:10
And thou shalt keep the feast of weeks unto the Lord thy God with a tribute of a freewill offering of thine hand, which thou shalt give unto the Lord thy God, according as the Lord thy God hath blessed thee:
- Leviticus 23:15-16
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: Even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall offer a new meat offering unto the Lord.
- Numbers 28:26-30
Also in the day of the firstfruits, when ye bring a new meat offering unto the Lord, after your weeks be out, ye shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work: But ye shall offer the burnt offering for a sweet savour unto the Lord; two young bullocks, one ram, seven lambs of the first year; And their meat offering of flour mingled with oil, three tenth deals unto one bullock, two tenth deals unto one ram, A several tenth deal unto one lamb, throughout the seven lambs; …
- Deuteronomy 16:16
Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before the Lord thy God in the place which he shall choose; in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles: and they shall not appear before the Lord empty:
- 2 Chronicles 8:13
Even after a certain rate every day, offering according to the commandment of Moses, on the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the solemn feasts, three times in the year, even in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles.
- Hebrews 2:1
Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip.
- 1 Corinthians 16:8
But I will tarry at Ephesus until Pentecost.
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- Deuteronomy 16:8
Six days thou shalt eat unleavened bread: and on the seventh day shall be a solemn assembly to the Lord thy God: thou shalt do no work therein.
- Deuteronomy 16:9
Seven weeks shalt thou number unto thee: begin to number the seven weeks from such time as thou beginnest to put the sickle to the corn.
- Deuteronomy 16:10
And thou shalt keep the feast of weeks unto the Lord thy God with a tribute of a freewill offering of thine hand, which thou shalt give unto the Lord thy God, according as the Lord thy God hath blessed thee:
Deuteronomy 16:9 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Siete semanas te contarás: desde que comenzare la hoz en las mieses comenzarás á contarte las siete semanas. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Tu compteras sept semaines; depuis que la faucille commence à être mise aux blés, tu commenceras à compter sept semaines, |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Sieben Wochen sollst du dir zählen; von da an, wo man beginnt, die Sichel an die Saat zu legen, sollst du anfangen, sieben Wochen zu zählen. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Septem hebdomadas numerabis tibi ab ea die qua falcem in segetem miseris. |