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Feast of Weeks

British  

noun

  1. Judaism a literal translation of Shavuot

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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The time of the Feast of Weeks was at hand, and Je-sus went up to Je-ru-sa-lem to keep it.

From Young Folks' Bible in Words of Easy Reading The Sweet Stories of God's Word in the Language of Childhood by Josephine Pollard

Just wait till the Feast of Weeks, when the people all come to bring the first fruits of the harvests.

From Joel: A Boy of Galilee by Annie F. (Annie Fellows) Johnston

Or did my mother weep for Busie, because she was getting married on the Sabbath after the Feast of Weeks?

From Jewish Children by Hannah Berman

Feast of Weeks, 474. feather cap, 136. festivals, 472 sq. fetishism in primitive Egypt, 103, 205, 227. folk-lore, limitations of, 18. frog, the, 136.

From The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce

The messenger bearing the letter arrived on the day before the Feast of Weeks.

From The Legends of the Jews — Volume 4 by Paul Radin

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