Shalom Canasia,
I am sorry for earlier confusion, I did not realize until your last post that you advocate the Boethusian position of the sadducees.
I would like to make a few points...
If you trust the septuagint...some confusion could be alleviated...
To be clear I am using ISR...but I shall render the differences found in the text of the septuagint.
Lev 23:6 ‘And on the fifteenth day of this month is the Festival of Unleavened Bread to יהוה – seven days you eat unleavened bread.
Lev 23:7 ‘On the first day you have a set-apart gathering, you do no servile work.
Lev 23:8 ‘And you shall bring an offering made by fire to יהוה for seven days. On the seventh day is a set-apart gathering, you do no servile work.’ ”
Lev 23:9 And יהוה spoke to Mosheh, saying,
Lev 23:10 “Speak to the children of Yisra’ĕl, and you shall say to them, ‘When you come into the land which I give you, and shall reap its harvest, then you shall bring a sheaf of the first-fruits of your harvest to the priest.
Lev 23:11 ‘And he shall wave the sheaf before יהוה, for your acceptance. On the morrow after the
[first day] the priest waves it.
let's go on...
Lev 23:15 ‘And from the morrow after the Sabbath, from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering, you shall count for yourselves: seven
[complete weeks].
Lev 23:16 ‘Until the morrow after the seventh
[week] you count fifty days, then you shall bring a new grain offering to יהוה.
just to show that I am not fooling with the text and my rendering is possible...even probable here is the JPS
Lev 23:15 And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the day of rest, from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the waving; seven weeks shall there be complete;
Lev 23:16 even unto the morrow after the seventh week shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall present a new meal-offering unto the LORD.
I submit that the KJV (and all reworkings of it) is errent in it's rendering of the later part of v 15 and v 16...this is not to say JPS is a wonderful translation or even a good one for that matter...but every dog has it's day.
BTW i am not basing this soley on the JPS,but merely confirming by the JPS a scholarly independent rendering of the Septuagint.
Quote:But that wave offering had to have been made on the Sunday in that 7 day Feast of Unleavened Bread period immediately following the Saturday Sabbath. That's the only way you can get the required 7 Sabbaths (not 8 or 9) within a 50-day period, from the day they made the wave offering, to the Feast of Weeks, which is what they had to count.
We like to givethe p'rushim a lot of guff and of'n enough...rightly so...but did they do everything wrong? Could they have been right about Omer Reshith (the first sheath) being Aviv 16 thus making Shavuot always Sivan 6?
If indeed Yahushua was resurrected on an Aviv 16 that happened to be the first day then it would follow that that year's Shavuot was the first day. Just as if Omer Reshith was on the 3rd day...Shavuot would also be on the 3rd day.
I am not completely disavowing Boethusian reckoning...but until I am presented with better and more conclusive evidence...I am going to stick with the pharisaic conclusion that was in all likelihood effect during the time of Yahushua...a conclusion that as far as I can tell He did not contradict or find necessary to correct.
Yibarakhem YHWH
Shalom
P.S. btw...in the year 33 C.E. both the Boethusian and the Pharisaic conclusions about reckoning would been fulfilled by Yahushua Messiah...coincidence?