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What day of the week the day referred to in Leviticus 23:15-16 as "the morrow/day after the sabbath" was? First one must know that the word TRANSLTED 'sabbath' IS WRONG. It is wrongly interpreted to be a Nomen-Noun name of specific day-- the Seventh Day of the week which it NEVER was in ANY sense or manner because in the second place, it is wrong to render or translate the wrong interpretation with the very same incorrect and now obviously false Nomen-Noun with the very same incorrect and now obviously false name of the specific day of the week that presunably is the Seventh Day of the week. The Hebrew strictly exactly and precisely means, and must be translated with, the Verbal Noun, "rest"--"after the rest" - on whichever day of the week it might have been. "The day after the first sheaf rested" or the day after the first sheaf had been "kept-in-store" (as the LXX goes), THAT SELFSAME DAY counted day 1 of 7 x 7=49 days + 1 day = 50 days "counted"=Pentecost. So the fiftieth day / 'shavuot'/ 'pentecost' fell any day of the week and depended on which day of the YEAR the winter equinox new moon occurred and was the first day of the First Month and first day of the year for Israel.Given these interpretations, whether the day referred to in Leviticus 23:15-16 is a Saturday or Sunday depends on the specific Jewish tradition followed. However, in most mainstream Jewish traditions, the counting of the Omer starts on the second day of Passover, regardless of the actual day of the week it falls on.
The day after the first sheaf-"rest" / posturing / prostration / waving / laying down / being "in store", NEVER <depended on the specific Jewish tradition followed>. It NEVER was a matter of <the counting of the Omer>, it NEVER <started on the second day of Passover> but on the second day of the passover FEAST-DAYS of unleavened bread eaten. And the second day of the feast, or seven days of eating unleavened bread, always was "the sixteenth day of the First Month" <regardless of the actual day of the week it fell on>. There was never another method of synchronization of the times and laws of passover anywhere on earth or in history.