15:28 “‘If 1 she becomes clean from her discharge, then she is to count off for herself seven days, and afterward she will be clean.
23:15 “‘You must count for yourselves seven weeks from the day after the Sabbath, from the day you bring the wave offering sheaf; they must be complete weeks. 2 23:16 You must count fifty days – until the day after the seventh Sabbath – and then 3 you must present a new grain offering to the Lord.
25:8 “‘You must count off 4 seven weeks of years, seven times seven years, 5 and the days of the seven weeks of years will amount to forty-nine years. 6
1 tn Heb “And if…” Although this clause is parallel to v. 13 above, it begins with וְאִם (vÿ’im, “and if”) here rather than וְכִי (vÿkhi, “and when/if”) there.
2 tn Heb “seven Sabbaths, they shall be complete.” The disjunctive accent under “Sabbaths” precludes the translation “seven complete Sabbaths” (as NASB, NIV; cf. NAB, NRSV, NLT). The text is somewhat awkward, which may explain why the LXX tradition is confused here, either adding “you shall count” again at the end of the verse, or leaving out “they shall be,” or keeping “they shall be” and adding “to you.”
3 tn Heb “and.” In the translation “then” is supplied to clarify the sequence.
4 tn Heb “And you shall count off for yourself.”
5 tn Heb “seven years seven times.”
6 tn Heb “and they shall be for you, the days of the seven Sabbaths of years, forty-nine years.”