DEUTERONOMY - CHAPTER 16
DEUTERONOMY - CHAPTER 16
— 9 - 12. The day of Pentecost was evidently thus — whatever day the first handful could be had, it was offered on the day after the Sabbath (Sunday); thence to the seventh Sabbath was forty-nine, and then on the fiftieth (Sunday) Pentecost was celebrated. In itself it had no connection with the previous feast of unleavened bread — historically it was so, but they were distinct ordinances. See also Leviticus 23:15, 16.