Discovery BoxDeuteronomy 16:9-10 
ContextThe Festival of Weeks
16:9 You must count seven weeks; you must begin to count them 1 from the time you begin to harvest the standing grain. 16:10 Then you are to celebrate the Festival of Weeks 2 before the Lord your God with the voluntary offering 3 that you will bring, in proportion to how he 4 has blessed you.
1 tn Heb “the seven weeks.” The translation uses a pronoun to avoid redundancy in English.
2 tn The Hebrew phrase חַג שָׁבֻעוֹת (khag shavu’ot) is otherwise known in the OT (Exod 23:16) as קָצִיר (qatsir, “harvest”) and in the NT as πεντηχοστή (penthcosth, “Pentecost”).
3 tn Heb “the sufficiency of the offering of your hand.”
