The Festival of Weeks
9 "You are to count seven weeks, counting the weeks from the time the sickle is first put to the standing grain. 16:9–12 Lv 23:15–2110 You are to celebrate the Festival of Weeks 16:10 Ex 34:22; Nm 28:26; 2Ch 8:13 to the Lord your God with a freewill offering 16:10 Ex 35:29; Lv 7:16; 22:21,23; Nm 15:3; Ezr 1:4,6; 8:28; Ps 54:6 that you give in proportion to how the Lord your God has blessed you. 11 Rejoice 16:11 Lv 23:40; Dt 12:12; 14:26; 26:11; 27:7 before the Lord your God in the place where he chooses to have his name dwell — you, your son and daughter, your male and female slave, the Levite within your city gates, as well as the resident alien, the fatherless, and the widow among you. 12 Remember that you were slaves in Egypt; carefully follow these statutes.
16 "All your males are to appear three times a year 16:16 Ex 23:14,17; 34:23–24; 1Kg 9:25; Lk 2:42 before the Lord your God in the place he chooses: at the Festival of Unleavened Bread, the Festival of Weeks, and the Festival of Shelters. No one is to appear before the Lord empty-handed. 16:16 Ex 3:21; 23:15; 34:20