Deuteronomy 16:9
Seven weeks shalt thou number unto thee: begin to number the seven weeks from such time as thou beginnest to put the sickle to the corn.
Cross-reference
In Deuteronomy 16:10, this counting of seven weeks directly leads to the observance of the Feast of Weeks.
Deuteronomy 16:16 lists the Feast of Weeks as one of three required pilgrimages, of which this counting is the preparation.
Exodus 23:16 calls the same festival the 'Feast of Harvest,' providing its earlier name and confirming its agricultural basis.
Exodus 34:22 commands the Feast of Weeks (Pentecost) as a harvest festival — the same feast triggered by the counting here.
Leviticus 23:15 gives the detailed counting instructions from the wave sheaf — the exact method summarized here.
Leviticus 23:16 specifies counting fifty days to the new grain offering — the culmination of the seven weeks count.
Numbers 28:26-30 prescribes the offerings and holy convocation for the Feast of Weeks — the event reached after the count.
2 Chronicles 8:13 lists the Feast of Weeks among Israel's required feasts — confirming its ongoing observance.
Acts 2:1 records Pentecost (the Greek name for Feast of Weeks) — the NT fulfillment when the Spirit descended.
Leviticus 23:10 introduces the firstfruits sheaf offering — the starting point for the seven-week count commanded here.
1 Corinthians 16:8 mentions Paul staying until Pentecost — a NT reference to the same feast without doctrinal development.