Why does the One Nation Calendar Coalition believe that Chag Shavuote should always fall on a Yom Reshone (Sunday)?
Lev. 23:15-17 reads: 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; even unto the morrow after the seventh week shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall present a new meal-offering unto the LORD.-The Holy Scriptures, publ.,The Jewish Publication Society of America. The more accurate translation of the Hebrew text is: And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the Shabbat (Sabbath), from the day that ye brought the sheaf of waving; seven Shabtote (Sabbaths) shall there be complete; even unto the morrow after the seventh Shabbat shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall present a new meal-offering unto the LORD. The inaccurate translation has caused us to start the counting of the sheaf (omer) on the sixteenth day of Aviv (the day after the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread), which could fall on any day of the week, ending our fifty day count on the sixth day of t
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