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	JewishEncyclopedia.com - PENTECOST (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		10-17), the Feast of Weeks is the second of the three festivals to be celebrated by the altar dance of all males at the sanctuary.
		Some claim that this controversy was the reason for the substitution by the Talmudists of "'Aẓeret" for "Shabu'ot" or "Weeks," on which the Sadducees, and later the Karaites in the geonic period, based their adverse contention.
		In Jubilees the Feast of Weeks and Feast of First-Fruits of the Harvest are celebrated on Siwan 15 (Jubilees, xvi.
	www.jewishencyclopedia.com /view.jsp?artid=177&letter=P (2298 words)

	Feast of Weeks - Feasts of Israel
		The Feast of Weeks, also known as Harvest (Exodus 23:16), Shavuot (Hebrew), the Day of Firstfruits (Numbers 28:26), or Pentecost, was a festival of joy and thanksgiving celebrating the completion of the harvest season.
		It is called the Feast of Weeks because God specifically told the sons of Jacob that they were to count seven sevens of weeks (seven complete weeks) from Firstfruits (Leviticus 23:15; Deuteronomy 16:9), and then on the "morrow" this fourth feast was to be observed (Luke 23:16).
		The Feast of Weeks is a symbolic festival which pointed to the coming of the Holy Spirit and the birthday of the Church.
	www.christcenteredmall.com /teachings/feasts/weeks.htm (746 words)

	The Spiritual Significance of the
		The Feast of Weeks or Pentecost is latent with symbolism and mystery.
		To both Jewish sects, the Pharisees and Sadducees, the ‘Feast of Weeks’ came to be regarded as concluding the Feast of Passover.
		As was stated earlier, the ‘Feast of Weeks’ brought an end to the barley harvest and began the wheat harvest.
	www.plim.org /Pentecostjune96.html (2659 words)

	Feast of Weeks
		The first feast is the Feast of Unleavened Bread which represented the cleansing of false leaven from our lives.
		The second feast is the the Feast of Firstfruits which would of been a major celebration because the spring grain harvest was complete.
		The sacrifices that were required for the Feast of Weeks was in addition to the daily sacrifice.
	www.paleotimes.org /articles/feastOfWeeks2.html (1399 words)

	Festival of Weeks
		This feast is also called the Feast of Ingathering (Exodus 23:16; 34:22), the Feast to the Lord (Leviticus 23:39; Judges 21:9), the Feast of Booths, or simply "the feast" (Leviticus 23:36; Deuteronomy 16:13; I Kings 8:2; II Chronicles 5:3, 7:8; Nehemiah 8:14; Isaiah 30:29; Ezekiel 45:23,25) because it was so well-known.
		The four spring feasts related to His first coming: His death was depicted in Passover; that His body would not decay in the grave is seen in Unleavened Bread; His resurrection is illustrated in Firstfruits; and the beginning of the Church is typified in Pentecost (Weeks).
		The Feast of Trumpets depicts the Rapture of the Chruch.
	www3.telus.net /trbrooks/weeks.htm (5880 words)

	Blue Letter Bible - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
		Exd 34:22 — And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, of the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the year's end.
		And the feast of harvest, the firstfruits of thy labours, which thou hast sown in the field: and the feast of ingathering, [which is] in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labours out of the field.
		And thou shalt rejoice in thy feast, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite, the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that [are] within thy gates.
	www.blueletterbible.org /tsk_b/Exd/34/22.html (554 words)

	FEAST OF PENTECOST
		The Feast of Weeks began on the third day after the Passover with the presentation of the first harvest sheaves to God, and it concluded on Pentecost with the offering of two loaves of unleavened bread, representing the first products of the harvest (Leviticus 23:17-20; Deuteronomy 16:9-10).
		The icon of the Feast of Pentecost is known as "The Descent of the Holy Spirit".
		On the Monday following the Feast, the Divine Liturgy is conducted in commemoration of the All-holy and Life-creating and All-powerful Spirit, Who is God, and One of the Trinity, and of one honor and one essence and one glory with the Father and the Son (From the Synaxarion of the Feast).
	www.goarch.org /en/special/listen_learn_share/pentecost/learn/index.asp (1406 words)

	The Feast of Tabernacles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In partaking of Christ, we partake of the Passover feast, the Firstfruits feast, and the Tabernacle feast.
		The week of this feast in rejoicing because of God's deliverance ushers in the messianic age, followed by the eighth day (twenty-second of Tishri), which is the greatest day of the feast.
		The feast of Tabernacles was a ceremony to teach the nations the Biblical history of redemption and remains as a perpetual feast for all the elect today.
	www.mountainretreatorg.net /reading/article.cgi?id=53 (14947 words)

	The Feast of Weeks - Shavuot (Pentecost)
		Pentecost is considered to be the birth of the church and the beginning of the visual fulfillment of the covenant of grace promised by God and explained by the prophet Jeremiah in 31:31ff.
		Three feasts are celebrated at Passover, and three feasts are celebrated together at Tabernacles, but the Feast of Weeks was a celebration by itself that lasted for only one day.
		The Feast of Weeks was connected to the Feast of Firstfruits by the counting of the Omer of barley that was waved before the Lord.
	www.soundofgrace.com /v10/n2/shavuot_les.htm (4988 words)

	bikkurim
		"And you shall observe the Feast of Weeks of the Firstfruits of wheat harvest" (Exodus 34:22).
		Feast of Firstfruits is a commonly used title condensed from Feast of Weeks of the Firstfruits.
		The seven weeks are for the redeemed slave-girl (Israel) to mature enough for her betrothal to Messiah at Shavuot.
	www.ahavta.org /bikkurim.htm (2306 words)

	Weeks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The name, Feast of Weeks, is derived from the fact that the celebration of this feast was seven weeks or a week of weeks after the Firstfruits.
		Thus, as the Passover, and the Feast of Unleavened Bread are associated together, so are the Feast of Firstfruits and Pentecost.
		As the Firstfruits of a glorious harvest … so the ________________ honored the feast of Pentecost by His descent upon the waiting and expectant disciples, who, when that day was "being fulfilled" (Acts 2:1), were found gathered together waiting for the promised Comforter.
	www.mcbible.com /Feasts/Weeks.htm (578 words)

	E-015 The Three Biblical Pilgrimages
		One of the most spectacular religious Feasts, that is being held in accordance with the Bible is the Feast of Tabernacles, that is held in the autumn of each year, reflecting the great harvest of the land in corn and wine.
		The sequence of the three Feasts is stated both in Deuteronomy and in Exodus and starts with the Feast of Unleavened Bread or the Passover Festival, followed with the Feast of Weeks and closed with the Feast of Tabernacles.
		A complete week is a week that begins with the first day of the week and ends with the seventh day of the week, the Sabbath.
	www.mystae.com /reflections/messiah/festivals/ThreePilgrimages.htm (5208 words)

	The Feast of Weeks (Sha vu Ot) or Pentecost
		The Feast of Weeks (Sha vu Ot) or Pentecost
		The Feast of Weeks - Pentecost - Firstfruits
		This is the time of the wheat harvest in Israel, and Sha Vu Ot is a Firstfruits feast for the harvest.
	fp.thebeers.f9.co.uk /shavuot.htm (1251 words)

	Chapter 4 (Jewish Spring Festivals/Holy Days), Part IV (FOURTH SPRING FESTIVAL (SHAVUOT))
		Having been seven full weeks since the Feast of Firstfruits, it was referred to as Hag haShavuot (or simply Shavuot), meaning the “Feast of Weeks,” and also would be known as the Feast of Harvest, because it was a celebration of the wheat harvest.
		The day culminating the Feast of Weeks, the fiftieth day beginning with the Feast of Firstfruits, is one of the three annual festivals for which all Jewish men were required to gather together before God (Exo.
		The Feast of Weeks (or Pentecost) is the last Jewish feast in the Spring.
	www.tedmontgomery.com /bblovrvw/C_4d.html (1943 words)

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		If the feast of firstfruits typifies the resurrection of Christ, and the feast of weeks is connected to it, it seems to me that the most obvious conclusion is that the feast of weeks typifies the resurrection of believers.
		The feast of firstfruits is a celebration of the firstfruits of the harvest, "......bring to the priest a sheaf of the first grain of your harvest" (Lev.
		The feast of weeks is connected to the feast of firstfruits by the fact that it is reckoned from that feast, and also from the fact that for both feasts, they were to bring "two loaves......as a wave offering of first fruits" (Lev.
	www.rightwordtruth.com /Pentecost.htm (3468 words)

	HighBeam Encyclopedia - Weeks, Feast of (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		WEEKS, FEAST OF [Weeks, Feast of] see Shavuot.
		Spears of springtime: for a few fleeting weeks in April and May Switzerland produces one of the finest asparagus crops in the world.
		Lacroix's spirited spring: a feast of new ideas.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/X/X-Weeks-Fe.asp (182 words)

	The Feasts of Weeks: Pentecost in May - Chuck Missler - Koinonia House
		The Feast of Weeks is associated with the birth of Israel and the giving of the Law in Exodus 19.
		The Birth of the Church appears to be a fulfillment of the Feast of Pentecost, or Shavout.
		Another name for the Feast of Weeks is Hag Ha Kazir, The Feast of Harvest, since it is celebrated at the time of the "first harvest." It is interesting that Jesus frequently used "the harvest" as an idiom to refer to the ingathering of believers.
	www.khouse.org /articles/1994/101 (1502 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pentecost (Jewish Feast)
		The interpretation of this passage was early disputed and at the time of Jesus Christ two opinions touching the exact day of the feast were held.
		Most doctors (and the bulk of the people) understood (on the force of Leviticus 23:7) the sabbath spoken of in verse 11 to be the first day of the unleavened bread, Nisan 15; whereas the Sadducees (later also the Karaites) held that the weekly sabbath falling during the Passover festivities was meant (Talmud, Treat.
		The feast was an occasion for social and joyful gatherings (Deuteronomy 16:11) and we may infer from the New Testament that it was, like the Passover, attended at Jerusalem by a great homecoming of the Jews from all parts of the world (Act., ii, 5-11).
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/11661a.htm (571 words)

	Chapter 5 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		I believe that the Feast of Weeks or Feast of Pentecost, which was fifty days after the sheaf of first fruits was presented to God was also to serve as a reminder that the time of restoration, that is the Year of Jubilee was coming.
		In addition, in contrast to the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the bread used during the Feast of Weeks was to be leavened, that is made with yeast.
		We must all recall that during the Feast of Weeks the two loaves of bread were to be holy, that is set apart, to the Lord for the priest (Leviticus 23:20a).
	www.concentric.net /~Jsweetj/Volume2/Chapter5VolII.html (6141 words)

	Karaite Korner - Shavuot (Feast of Weeks)
		Hag Ha-Shavuot, is the second of the three annual Hagim [Pilgrimage-Festivals] in the Hebrew Calendar and is known in English as the Feast of Weeks or Pentecost.
		Unlike all the other Holidays in the Tanach, the Feast of Weeks is not given a fixed calendar date but instead we are commanded to celebrate it at the end of a 50-day period known as "The Counting of the Omer" (Shavuot being the 50th day).
		Note 2: The name "Counting of the Omer" for the period between the Omer Offering and Feast of Weeks does not appear in the Tanach and is used here by common convention.
	www.karaite-korner.org /shavuot.shtml (1509 words)

	talmidimyeshua.org - Counting the Feast of Weeks
		However, understanding verses 11-12 as placing the day that the omer was waved a week later on the first day of the week (and the first day of unleavened bread on the first day of the week seven days earlier) still presents the problem of reconciling this belief with Exodus 16:4-5, 22-30.
		The belief in a wavesheaf offering on the first day of the week has caused debate in the assemblies when Aviv 14 (the day of the passover offering) is on a weekly sabbath and the first day of unleavened bread (Aviv 15) is on the first day of the week.
		The feast of Pentecost is always fifty days after the sabbath of the first day of unleavened bread when the count is reckoned from that moed (appointed time).
	talmidimyeshua.org /50.htm (8529 words)

	The Feast of Weeks - Pentecost (Shavuot) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Feast of Weeks (Exodus 34:22; Numbers 28:26-31; Leviticus 23:15-21) is the second of the three major Jewish festivals (the other two are Passover and the Feast of Tabernacles).
		This festival was observed 7 weeks from the second day of Passover, on which was the offering of barley sheaf, hence the name of the festival.
		The Feast of Weeks was observed after the Israel people settled in the Promised Land.
	www3.telus.net /public/kstam/en/temple/details/pentecost.htm (423 words)

	Jewish art - sjavoeot - feast of weeks
		In biblical times one counted from the moment the first sheaf ('omer') of the new harvest of barley was brought to the priest in the Temple, up to the time the first produce of wheat was handed over to the priests in the shape of two breads, together with other offerings.
		As a moment of commemorating the devastation of the Temple in the year 70 of the common era, the custom of counting the 'omer' is still being kept up.
		Israel had already been freed from slavery and physical repression, but the people was not yet liberated from its internal and spiritual slavery, from its evil intentions, immorality, its fear and lack of independence.
	home.planet.nl /~marmora/xsjavoeot.htm (368 words)

	Leviticus Lesson 17
		The Feast of Weeks (Harvest) was the 4th of the 7 Annual feasts and it was immediately preceded by the 3 Feasts of Passover (Passover, Unleavened bread, and Firstfruits) and specifically by the Feast of Firstfruits.
		Therefore, this means that the feast of Weeks (Harvest) occurred 50 days after the sabbath which immediately preceded the Feast of Firstfruits and that it also occured on the 1st day of the week, a Sunday.
		The Feast of Pentecost, (the 4th Feast / the Feast of Weeks / Harvest /Shauvot) pictures the establishment of the NEW Covenant with the birth of the ___________ which is composed of those who have believed in and trusted in Jesus for their salvation.
	www.homestead.com /biblestudiesnet/files/levlsn17.html (9902 words)

	The Church in the Old Testament? The Feast of Weeks - Chuck Missler - Koinonia House
		This is one of the three (of the seven) feasts of Moses which was compulsory for every able-bodied male to attend.
		The Feast of Weeks is associated with the giving of the Law in Exodus 19, which can be rationalized as occurring on the 6th of Sivan.
		The Birth of the Church appears to be a fulfillment of the Feast of Pentecost, or Shavuot.
	www.khouse.org /articles/2003/469 (1781 words)

	Feast of Weeks; Feast of Shuavot
		It also points to the dispersion, which Judah would have to suffer as She was scattered to the four-corners of the earth in 69AD when Jerusalem and the Temple was destroyed by the forces of Rome.
		The counting of the Omer began at the feasts of Firstfruits.
		As we have discovered from the Word, the feasts of Yahvah contain a wonderful prophetic picture of, 1 the 1 st event of Messiah Y'Shua on earth, 2 His perfect sacrifice, 3 His resurrection and 4 “the giving of YHVH's Presence.” Messiah Y'Shua has fulfilled these four feasts on their respective feast days.
	www.proclaimtheword.org /feast5.html (615 words)

	Feast of Weeks
		These Scriptures and the account given in Jasher 82:6 are why many references put the delivery of the law at the Feast of Weeks.
		In the New Testament when the disciples were gathered for the Feast of Weeks the Holy Spirit was poured out upon them.
		The story of Ruth is a time-honored tradition for the Feast of Weeks.
	www.paleotimes.org /articles/HagShavuot.htm (3441 words)

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