From the day after the Sabbath, the day you brought the sheaf of the wave offering, count off seven full weeks. The counting of the Omer — the seven weeks from the firstfruits wave to the Feast of Weeks — begins the day after the Sabbath when the sheaf was waved. The counting of seven full weeks is the temporal structure that connects the firstfruits of the barley harvest to the Feast of Weeks that celebrates the wheat harvest. The counting communicates the covenant community's active participation in the approach of the next festival: the weeks are counted, not merely passed.

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