Bible Verses About Weeks

On the seventh day God was finished with his work which he had made, so he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.

Finish the marriage week of this one, and we'll give you the other one also in exchange for the work you will do for me during yet another seven years."

Ya'akov agreed to this, so he finished her week, and Lavan gave him his daughter Rachel as his wife.

"Observe the festival of Shavu'ot with the first-gathered produce of the wheat harvest, and the festival of ingathering at the turn of the year.

"'From the day after the day of rest -that is, from the day you bring the sheaf for waving -you are to count seven full weeks,

until the day after the seventh week; you are to count fifty days; and then you are to present a new grain offering to ADONAI.

"Seventy weeks have been decreed for your people and for your holy city for putting an end to the transgression, for making an end of sin, for forgiving iniquity, for bringing in everlasting justice, for setting the seal on vision and prophet, and for anointing the Especially Holy Place.

Know, therefore, and discern that seven weeks [of years] will elapse between the issuing of the decree to restore and rebuild Yerushalayim until an anointed prince comes. It will remain built for sixty-two weeks [of years], with open spaces and moats; but these will be troubled times.

He will make a strong covenant with leaders for one week [of years]. For half of the week he will put a stop to the sacrifice and the grain offering. On the wing of detestable things the desolator will come and continue until the already decreed destruction is poured out on the desolator."

I fast twice a week, I pay tithes on my entire income, . . . ’

The festival of Shavu‘ot arrived, and the believers all gathered together in one place.