9 "You shall count seven weeks for yourself; you shall begin to count seven weeks from the time you begin to put the sickle to the standing grain. 10 Then you shall 16:10 Lit performcelebrate the Feast of Weeks to the Lord your God with a 16:10 Or freewill offeringvoluntary offering of your hand in a proportional amount, which you shall give just as the Lord your God blesses you; 11 and you shall rejoice before the Lord your God, you, your son and your daughter, and your male and female slaves, and the Levite who is in your 16:11 Lit gatestown, and the stranger, the 16:11 Or fatherlessorphan, and the widow who are in your midst, at the place where the Lord your God chooses to establish His name. 12 You shall also remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and you shall be careful and 16:12 Lit perform thesecomply with these statutes.
16 "Three times a year all your males shall appear before the Lord your God at the place which He chooses: at the Feast of Unleavened Bread, at the Feast of Weeks, and at the Feast of Booths; and they are not to appear before the Lord empty-handed.