Deuteronomy 16:9

The Festival of Weeks

16:9 You must count seven weeks; you must begin to count them from the time you begin to harvest the standing grain.

Deuteronomy 33:13

Blessing on Joseph

33:13 Of Joseph he said:

May the Lord bless his land

with the harvest produced by the sky, by the dew,

and by the depths crouching beneath;


tn Heb “the seven weeks.” The translation uses a pronoun to avoid redundancy in English.

tn Heb “from the harvest of the heavens.” The referent appears to be good crops produced by the rain that falls from the sky.