Holman Christian Standard Bible

Deuteronomy 16:8-11 Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

8. You must eat unleavened bread for six days. On the seventh day there is to be a solemn assembly to the Lord your God, and you must not do any work.

9. “You are to count seven weeks, counting the weeks from the time the sickle is first put to the standing grain.

10. You are to celebrate the Festival of Weeks to the Lord your God with a freewill offering that you give in proportion to how the Lord your God has blessed you.

11. Rejoice before Yahweh your God in the place where He chooses to have His name dwell — you, your son and daughter, your male and female slave, the Levite within your gates, as well as the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow among you.