Need to know exact sacrifices required in the Old Testament Pentecost Feast

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The Pentecost festival was the end of the Festival of Weeks.

A few things may help here:

  1. The Festival of weeks itself was a several week affair that celebrated the entire harvest. It began when the barley was ready, and ended with the wheat. As such, it was a season - but the highest day thereof was the single day of Pentecost.

  2. As a harvest festival, the primary offerings would have been the non-living sacrifices. The barley offering and the grain offering were the primary things one would think of - in the same way that a modern American would associate Thanksgiving with turkey.

  3. That said, there were animal offerings - but these were not proscribed directly. Rather, the most common would have been sheep (because that was the primary herd animal - your other suspects: pigs would have been unkosher, cows would have been too expensive, chickens would have been seen as bad luck). Had you been unable to afford a sheep, however, as a freewill offering, you could substitute other less expensive animals - like two turtledoves / pigeons.

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