Imamat 23:15

The Festival of Weeks

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. ¹ 

Imamat 23:14

23:14 You must not eat bread, roasted grain, or fresh grain until this very day, ²  until you bring the offering of your God. This is a perpetual statute throughout your generations ³  in all the places where you live.

[23:15]  ¹ 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.”

[23:14]  ² tn Heb “until the bone of this day.”

[23:14]  ³ tn Heb “for your generations.”