Feast of Weeks

Harvest celebration completing the firstfruits offering, later tied to covenant memory.

Feast of Weeks (Pentecost) is a harvest celebration tied to firstfruits and gratitude. In the New Testament it becomes a key marker for the outpouring of the Spirit, which makes it useful as a bridge between agricultural life and redemptive history.

Related foods

Bread Wine

Scripture

Leviticus 23:15-16

15 "'You shall count from the next day after the Sabbath, from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven Sabbaths shall be completed:

16 even to the next day after the seventh Sabbath you shall number fifty days; and you shall offer a new meal offering to Yahweh.

Deuteronomy 16:10

10 You shall keep the feast of weeks to Yahweh your God with a tribute of a freewill offering of your hand, which you shall give, according as Yahweh your God blesses you:

Acts 2:1-4

1 Now when the day of Pentecost had come, they were all with one accord in one place.

2 Suddenly there came from the sky a sound like the rushing of a mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.

3 Tongues like fire appeared and were distributed to them, and one sat on each of them.

4 They were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other languages, as the Spirit gave them the ability to speak.