Seven weeks shall you number unto you: begin to number the seven weeks from such time as you begin to put the sickle to the grain.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Corn: that is, from the 16th of Nisan, (Menochius) the second day of the paschal solemnity, on which new barley was presented before the Lord, as new wheat was on the second day of Pentecost, Leviticus xxiii. 10.
