Feast of Weeks - Learning about Shavuot

Iyer@brahminbeliever.com | | Updated on Mon 10 May 2021

The version used is KJV

This is a summary writeup around one of the Feasts of Yah, which occurs in late Spring, called the Feast of Weeks or in Hebrew tongue Chag HaShavuot

Ordinances and establishment

  • [Exo34:22] And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, of the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the year's end.
  • [Lev23:15-21]
    • And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the sabbath, from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven sabbaths shall be complete:
    • Even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall offer a new meat offering unto the LORD.
    • Ye shall bring out of your habitations two wave loaves of two tenth deals: they shall be of fine flour; they shall be baken with leaven; they are the firstfruits unto the LORD.
    • And ye shall offer with the bread seven lambs without blemish of the first year, and one young bullock, and two rams: they shall be for a burnt offering unto the LORD, with their meat offering, and their drink offerings, even an offering made by fire, of sweet savour unto the LORD.
    • Then ye shall sacrifice one kid of the goats for a sin offering, and two lambs of the first year for a sacrifice of peace offerings.
    • And the priest shall wave them with the bread of the firstfruits for a wave offering before the LORD, with the two lambs: they shall be holy to the LORD for the priest.
    • And ye shall proclaim on the selfsame day, that it may be an holy convocation unto you: ye shall do no servile work therein: it shall be a statute for ever in all your dwellings throughout your generations.
  • [Num28:26] Also in the day of the firstfruits, when ye bring a new meat offering unto the LORD, after your weeks be out, ye shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work:
  • [Deu16:9-17]
    • Seven weeks shalt thou number unto thee: begin to number the seven weeks from such time as thou beginnest to put the sickle to the corn.
    • And thou shalt keep the feast of weeks unto the LORD thy God with a tribute of a freewill offering of thine hand, which thou shalt give unto the LORD thy God, according as the LORD thy God hath blessed thee:
    • And thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are among you, in the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen to place his name there.
    • And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt: and thou shalt observe and do these statutes.
    • Thou shalt observe the feast of tabernacles seven days, after that thou hast gathered in thy corn and thy wine:
    • 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.
    • Seven days shalt thou keep a solemn feast unto the LORD thy God in the place which the LORD shall choose: because the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all thine increase, and in all the works of thine hands, therefore thou shalt surely rejoice.
    • Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose; in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles: and they shall not appear before the LORD empty:
    • Every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the LORD thy God which he hath given thee.

The Torah could have been given on Shavuot

  • [Exo19:1-6]
    • In the third month, when the children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day came they into the wilderness of Sinai.
    • For they were departed from Rephidim, and were come to the desert of Sinai, and had pitched in the wilderness; and there Israel camped before the mount.
    • And Moses went up unto God, and the LORD called unto him out of the mountain, saying, Thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel;
    • Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I bare you on eagles' wings, and brought you unto myself.
    • Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine:
    • And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel.

There is no specific set of verses that confirm the assertion, hence we cant be doctinal about this issue that the law was given during Feast of Weeks, but since Yah operates on His holy calendar, and with the above verse, there is a good possibility that the wedding covenant for the people of Israel might be during Feast of Weeks.

The Covenant given at Sinai

  • [Exo24]

Introduction to the [re]New[ed] Covenant

  • [Jer31:23-40]

Unveiling of the [re]New[ed] Covenant

  • [John13:1-20]
  • [John14:16-15:11]
  • [Acts1]
  • [Acts2]

Fulfillment of the [re]New[ed] Covenant

  • [Rev21]
  • [Rev22]