Even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath
Or weeks, forty nine days being counted, the following was the
fiftieth day, or Pentecost:
shall ye number fifty days;
from whence this feast had the name of Pentecost, ( Acts 2:1 ) ; all in Israel
were obliged to number those days, except women and servants
F20: the manner of doing it was this
F21; on the night of the second (day of
the passover), after the evening prayer, they began to number;
but if anyone forgot to number at the beginning of the night, he
went and numbered all the night; for the commandment is for
everyone to number by himself, and he ought to number standing,
and to bless first, and number the days and weeks: How? on the
first day he says, This is one day, until he comes to seven days,
and then he says, This is the seventh day, which is one week; and
on the eighth day he says, This is the eighth day, which is one
week and one day, and so till he comes to the fourteenth; then he
says, This is the fourteenth day, which make two weeks; and in
this way he numbers, and goes on until the forty ninth day: and
ye shall offer a new meat offering unto the Lord; that is, of new
corn, as the Targum of Jonathan and Jarchi explain it, and this
was of wheat; for it was the offering for the wheat harvest,
which was offered on the fiftieth day from the offering of the
sheaf or omer of the barley harvest.