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 23:15
 23:16
23:15 You shall then count seven complete weeks after the day following the [Passover] holiday when you brought the omer as a wave offering,
Usfartem lachem mimochorat haShabat miyom havi'achem et-omer hatnufah sheva Shabatot tmimot tihyeynah.
23:16 until the day after the seventh week, when there will be [a total of] 50 days. [On that 50th day] you may present new grain as a meal offering to God.
Ad mimochorat haShabat hashvi'it tisperu chamishim yom vehikravtem minchah chadashah l'Adonay.


Commentary:

You shall then count
  This is the commandment to count the Omer (Sefer HaMitzvoth, Positive 161).

50th day
  (Rashi). Pentacost in Greek.

you may present new grain
  (Menachoth 84b; Sifra; Rashi; Yad, Issurey Mizbeach 5:10). Or, 'you shall bring an offering of new grain,' namely the two loaves mentioned in Leviticus 23:17 (Menachoth 83b; Yad, Temidim 8:2).





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