Deuteronomy 16:9

Deuteronomy 16:9 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)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.
• New International Version (NIV)Count off seven weeks from the time you begin to put the sickle to the standing grain.
• English Standard Version (ESV)"You shall count seven weeks. Begin to count the seven weeks from the time the sickle is first put to the standing grain.
• New King James Version (NKJV)“You shall count seven weeks for yourself; begin to count the seven weeks from the time you begin to put the sickle to the grain.

Context of Deuteronomy 16:9

7Cook the meat and eat it in the place that the Lord your God will choose. The next morning, you may return to your tents. 8For the next six days, you must eat bread that you make without yeast. On the seventh day, you must all come together to worship the Lord your God. You must not do any work on that day. Count seven weeks from the first day that you bring in crops of grain from your fields. 10Then eat the Feast of Weeks to worship the Lord your God. Bring the gifts that you want to offer to him. Bring gifts that show how much he has blessed you. 11You and your family will be happy to worship the Lord your God, at the special place that he chooses. Enjoy time together with your children, your servants and the Levites who live in your town. Also join with the foreign people who live among you, with widows, and children who have no family. Worship God happily together.

Deuteronomy 16:9 word by word

שִׁבְעָ֥ה שָׁבֻעֹ֖ת תִּסְפָּר־לָ֑ךְ מֵהָחֵ֤ל חֶרְמֵשׁ֙ בַּקָּמָ֔ה תָּחֵ֣ל לִסְפֹּ֔ר שִׁבְעָ֖ה שָׁבֻעֽוֹת׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Sevenשֶׁ֫בַעsheba‛ shib‛âh · sevenH7651
• weeksשָׁבוּעַshâbûa‛ shâbûa‛ shebû‛âh · weekH7620
• shalt thou numberסָפַרsâphar · to recountH5608
• unto thee: beginחָלַלchâlal · to profane/begin: beginH2490
• the sickleחֶרְמֵשׁchermêsh · sickleH2770
• to the cornקָמָהqâmâh · standing grainH7054

Cross-references for Deuteronomy 16:9

• Deuteronomy 16:10Then eat the Feast of Weeks to worship the Lord your God. Bring the gifts that you want to offer to him. Bring gifts that show how much he has blessed you.
• Exodus 23:16Eat the Feast of Harvest every year. Offer to me the first crops that you bring from your fields. At the end of each year, eat Feast of Final Harvest. Do that when you have finished bringing in all of your crops from the fields.
• Exodus 34:22Eat the Feast of Weeks every year when you cut the first wheat in your fields. Eat the Feast of Harvest at the end of each year.
• Leviticus 23:15On the day after the Sabbath day the people will sacrifice their gifts to God. After this, they must count seven weeks.
• Numbers 28:26The day when you offer to the Lord the first part of the harvest must also be a holy day. That is also the day when you give to the Lord an offering of new grain. That is the Festival of Weeks. All the people must meet together. You must not work at your jobs on that day.
• 2 Chronicles 8:13He offered the sacrifices every day that Moses had told them to do. There were rules about sacrifices on Sabbath days, on festivals for each new moon and on the three special festivals each year. Those were the Festival of Flat Bread, the Festival of Weeks and the Festival of Huts.
• Acts 2:1Then the day of the Pentecost festival arrived. All the believers were meeting together in one place.
• 1 Corinthians 16:8So I will remain here at Ephesus city until the Pentecost festival.
• Hebrews 2:1So we must be very careful. We must continue to remember the message that we have heard about God's Son. Then we will not go in the wrong direction, and turn away from God.

Commentaries on Deuteronomy 16:9

• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 9-12Verses 9-12 Feast of Weeks; and Deuteronomy 16:13-17, Feast of Tabernacles. Nothing is here added to the rules given in Leviticus and Numbers except the clauses so often recurring in Deuteronomy and so characteristic of it, which restrict the public celebration of the festivals to the sanctuary, and enjoin that the enjoyments of them should be extended to the Levites, widows, orphans, etc.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 9-129-12. Seven weeks shalt thou number--The feast of weeks, or a WEEK OF WEEKS: the feast of pentecost (see on Le 23:10; also see Ex 34:22; Ac 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 (Ex 23:16; Nu 28:26), a freewill, spontaneous tribute of gratitude to God for His temporal bounties. This feast was instituted in memory…Read the comment

Topics related to Deuteronomy 16:9

• Pentecost
• Thankfulness

In the dictionaries

• Gift
• Inherit
• Pentecost
• Seven
• Sickle
• Atonement, Day of
• Calendar
• Criticism
• Exodus, the Book of
• Ezekiel

Commentaries on Deuteronomy 16

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings