Ulangan 16:1

The Passover-Unleavened Bread Festival

16:1 Observe the month Abib ¹  and keep the Passover to the Lord your God, for in that month ²  he ³  brought you out of Egypt by night.

Ulangan 16:8

16:8 You must eat bread made without yeast for six days. The seventh day you are to hold an assembly for the Lord your God; you must not do any work on that day. ⁴ 

Ulangan 16:10

16:10 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 33:7

Blessing on Judah

33:7 And this is the blessing ⁸  to Judah. He said,

Listen, O Lord, to Judah’s voice,

and bring him to his people.

May his power be great,

and may you help him against his foes.

[16:1]  ¹ sn The month Abib, later called Nisan (Neh 2:1; Esth 3:7), corresponds to March-April in the modern calendar.

[16:1]  ² tn Heb “in the month Abib.” The demonstrative “that” has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[16:1]  ³ tn Heb “the Lord your God.” The pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons to avoid redundancy.

[16:8]  ⁴ tn The words “on that day” are not in the Hebrew text; they are supplied in the translation for clarification (cf. TEV, NLT).

[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 Lord your God.” See note on “he” in 16:1.

[33:7]  ⁸ tn The words “the blessing” are supplied in the translation for clarity and stylistic reasons.