The Feast of Weeks
Israel counts fifty days from the wave sheaf and then keeps the Feast of Weeks with bread, burnt offerings, sin and peace offerings, priestly waving, sacred assembly, and rest from regular work.
F15rom the day after the Sabbath, the day you brought the sheaf of the wave offering, you are to count off seven full weeks. 16You shall count off fifty days until the day after the seventh Sabbath, and then present an offering of new grain to the LORD. 17Bring two loaves of bread from your dwellings as a wave offering, each made from two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour, baked with leaven, as the firstfruits to the LORD. 18Along with the bread you are to present seven unblemished male lambs a year old, one young bull, and two rams. They will be a burnt offering to the LORD, together with their grain offerings and drink offerings — a food offering, a pleasing aroma to the LORD. 19You shall also prepare one male goat as a sin offering and two male lambs a year old as a peace offering. 20The priest is to wave the lambs as a wave offering before the LORD, together with the bread of the firstfruits. The bread and the two lambs shall be holy to the LORD for the priest. 21On that same day you are to proclaim a sacred assembly, and you must not do any regular work. This is to be a permanent statute wherever you live for the generations to come.
Verse 15From the day after the Sabbath, when the wave sheaf is brought, Israel is to count seven full weeks.
It begins the count that leads to the next feast.
Verse 16They are to count fifty days to the day after the seventh Sabbath and then present an offering of new grain to the LORD.
It sets the feast's completion and purpose.
Verse 17Two loaves baked with leaven are to be brought from their dwellings as a wave offering of firstfruits to the LORD.
It names the central grain offering of the feast.
Verse 18With the bread, Israel presents seven lambs, one bull, and two rams as burnt offerings, with their grain and drink offerings.
It expands the feast into a full sacrificial presentation.
Verse 19A male goat is offered as a sin offering, along with two year-old male lambs as a peace offering.
It adds atonement and fellowship offerings to the feast.
Verse 20The priest waves the lambs with the firstfruits bread before the LORD, and these become holy to the LORD for the priest.
It describes the priestly act and the offering's consecrated result.
Verse 21That same day is a sacred assembly with no regular work, a permanent statute for future generations.
It seals the feast with communal rest and permanence.
When harvesting the land, Israel is to leave the field's edges and gleanings for the poor and the foreign resident.
22When you reap the harvest of your land, do not reap all the way to the edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest. Leave them for the poor and the foreign resident. I am the LORD your God.’”
Verse 22At harvest, Israel must not reap to the edges or gather every gleaning, but leave them for the poor and the foreign resident.
It widens harvest obedience to include provision for others.
A quiet block diagram: each row is one authored paragraph movement, with verse numbers kept visible for scanning and deeper work.
- vv. 15-21
Israel counts fifty days from the wave sheaf and then keeps the Feast of Weeks with bread, burnt offerings, sin and peace offerings, priestly waving, sacred assembly, and rest from regular work.
It lays out the feast's timing and its full offering sequence. - vv. 22
When harvesting the land, Israel is to leave the field's edges and gleanings for the poor and the foreign resident.
It binds mercy to the harvest setting of the feast.