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Pentecost is a Christian festival occurring on Whit Sunday commemorating the descent of the Holy Ghost on the apostles.

It also the Feast of Weeks , Also called: Shavuotthe harvest festival celebrated fifty days after the second day of Passover on the sixth and seventh days of Sivan, and commemorating the giving the Torah on Mount Sinai.

It derives from the Greek word Pentecoste, meaning the fiftieth day.

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