OLD TESTAMENT

Deuteronomy 16:9

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You shall count for yourselves seven weeks. From the time you begin to put the sickle to the standing grain you shall begin to count seven weeks.

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Verse 9. Corn: that is, from the 16th of Nisan, ( Menochius.) the second day of the paschal solemnity, on which new barley was presented before the Lord, as new wheat was on the second day of Pentecost. Leviticus 23:10.

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