Ulangan 16:9
Konteks16:9 You must count seven weeks; you must begin to count them 1 from the time you begin to harvest the standing grain.
Ulangan 23:1
Konteks23:1 A man with crushed 2 or severed genitals 3 may not enter the assembly of the Lord. 4
Ulangan 16:10
Konteks16:10 Then you are to celebrate the Festival of Weeks 5 before the Lord your God with the voluntary offering 6 that you will bring, in proportion to how he 7 has blessed you.
Ulangan 16:16
Konteks16:16 Three times a year all your males must appear before the Lord your God in the place he chooses for the Festival of Unleavened Bread, the Festival of Weeks, and the Festival of Temporary Shelters; and they must not appear before him 8 empty-handed.
[16:9] 1 tn Heb “the seven weeks.” The translation uses a pronoun to avoid redundancy in English.
[23:1] 2 tn Heb “bruised by crushing,” which many English versions take to refer to crushed testicles (NAB, NRSV, NLT); TEV “who has been castrated.”
[23:1] 3 tn Heb “cut off with respect to the penis”; KJV, ASV “hath his privy member cut off”; English versions vary in their degree of euphemism here; cf. NAB, NRSV, TEV, NLT “penis”; NASB “male organ”; NCV “sex organ”; CEV “private parts”; NIV “emasculated by crushing or cutting.”
[23:1] 4 sn The Hebrew term translated “assembly” (קָהָל, qahal) does not refer here to the nation as such but to the formal services of the tabernacle or temple. Since emasculated or other sexually abnormal persons were commonly associated with pagan temple personnel, the thrust here may be primarily polemical in intent. One should not read into this anything having to do with the mentally and physically handicapped as fit to participate in the life and ministry of the church.
[16:10] 5 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”).
[16:10] 6 tn Heb “the sufficiency of the offering of your hand.”
[16:10] 7 tn Heb “the
