WEEKS — the plural of shavua, a week, and the name of the second of the three pilgrim feasts, counted rather than dated. Deuteronomy 16:9 starts the clock at an event and not on a calendar: from when the sickle is first put to the standing grain, seven weeks. It is the only one of the three feasts with no fixed date, because the barley decides. ⭐ The older name is agricultural and descriptive: Exodus 23:16 calls it chag ha-qatsir, the feast of HARVEST, the firstfruits of your labours. Exodus 34:22 is where ‘weeks’ arrives. ⚠ Nothing in the Torah attaches it to Sinai or to the giving of the law; that identification is later, and this chapter has none of it. In Greek the counted fifty days give the feast the name the New Testament uses, Pentecost. → first discussed at Deut 16:10