7 And you shall roast and eat it in the place which the Lord your God chooses, and ain the morning you shall turn and go to your tents.
8 Six days you shall eat unleavened bread, and aon the seventh day there shallbe a1 sacred assembly to the Lord your God. You shall do no work onit.
The Feast of Weeks Reviewed
9 “You shall count seven weeks for yourself; begin to count the seven weeks from thetime you begin toput the sickle to the grain.
10 Then you shall keep the aFeast of Weeks to the Lord your God with the tribute of a freewill offering from your hand, which you shall give bas the Lord your God blesses you.
11aYou shall rejoice before the Lord your God, you and your son and your daughter, your male servant and your female servant, the Levite who is within your gates, the stranger and the fatherless and the widow who are among you, at the place where the Lord your God chooses to make His name abide.
12aAnd you shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and you shall be careful to observe these statutes.
Seven weeks shalt thou number—The feast of weeks, or a WEEK OF WEEKS: the feast of pentecost (see on Leviticus 23:10; also see Exodus 34:22; Acts 2:1). As on the second day of the passover a sheaf of new barley, reaped on purpose, was offered, so on the second day of pentecost a sheaf of new wheat was presented as first-fruits (Exodus 23:16; Numbers 28:26), a freewill, spontaneous tribute of gratitude to God for His temporal bounties. This feast was instituted in memory of the giving of the law, that spiritual food by which man's soul is nourished (Deuteronomy 8:3).
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