page_title: Pinechas (parsha)
section_title: Shavuot
hierarchical_section_title: Pinechas (parsha) / In inner-Biblical interpretation / Numbers chapter 28 / Shavuot
caption_attribution_description: English: Feast of trumpets, as in Numbers 10:10, from Henry Davenport Northrop, Treasures of the Bible,' published by International Publishing Company 1894
context_page_description: Pinechas, Pinchas, Pinhas, or Pin'has is the 41st weekly Torah portion in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the eighth in the Book of Numbers. It tells of Phinehas's killing of a couple, ending a plague, and of the daughters of Zelophehad's successful plea for land rights. It constitutes Numbers 25:10–30:1. The parashah is made up of 7,853 Hebrew letters, 1,887 Hebrew words, 168 verses, and 280 lines in a Torah scroll.
  Jews generally read it in July, or rarely in late June or early August. As the parashah sets out laws for the Jewish holidays, Jews also read parts of the parashah as Torah readings for many Jewish holidays. Numbers 28:1–15 is the Torah reading for the New Moon on a weekday. Numbers 28:9–15 is the maftir Torah reading for Shabbat Rosh Chodesh. Numbers 28:16–25 is the maftir Torah reading for the first two days of Passover. Numbers 28:19–25 is the maftir Torah reading for the intermediate days and seventh and eighth days of Passover. Numbers 28:26–31 is the maftir Torah reading for each day of Shavuot. Numbers 29:1–6 is the maftir Torah reading for each day of Rosh Hashanah. Numbers 29:7–11 is the maftir Torah reading for the Yom Kippur morning service.
context_section_description: Numbers 28:26–31 refers to the Festival of Shavuot. In the Hebrew Bible, Shavuot is called:
  The Feast of Weeks (חַג שָׁבֻעֹת, Chag Shavuot);
  The Day of the First-fruits; (יוֹם הַבִּכּוּרִים, Yom haBikurim)
  The Feast of Harvest (חַג הַקָּצִיר, Chag haKatzir); and
  A holy convocation (מִקְרָא-קֹדֶשׁ, mikrah kodesh).
  Exodus 34:22 associates Shavuot with the first-fruits (בִּכּוּרֵי, bikurei) of the wheat harvest. In turn, Deuteronomy 26:1–11 set out the ceremony for the bringing of the first fruits.
  To arrive at the correct date, Leviticus 23:15 instructs counting seven weeks from the day after the day of rest of Passover, the day that they brought the sheaf of barley for waving. Similarly, Deuteronomy 16:9 directs counting seven weeks from when they first put the sickle to the standing barley.
  Leviticus 23:16–19 sets out a course of offerings for the fiftieth day, including a meal-offering of two loaves made from fine flour from the first-fruits of the harvest; burnt-offerings of seven lambs, one bull, and two rams; a sin-offering of a goat; and a peace-offering of two lambs. Similarly, Numbers 28:26–30 sets out a course of offerings including a meal-offering; burnt-offerings of two bulls, one ram, and seven lambs; and one goat to make atonement. Deuteronomy 16:10 directs a freewill-offering in relation to God's blessing.
  Leviticus 23:21 and Numbers 28:26 ordain a holy convocation in which the Israelites were not to work.
  2 Chronicles 8:13 reports that Solomon offered burnt-offerings on the Feast of Weeks.
caption: Blowing the Shofar (illustration from the 1894 Treasures of the Bible)
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