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  1. In Judaism, the festival of Shavuot,
  2. celebrated on the 50th day after Passover in
  3. commemoration of the giving of the Ten
  4. Commandments to Moses on Mt Sinai, and the
  5. end of the grain harvest; in the Christian
  6. church, the day on which the apostles
  7. experienced inspiration of the Holy Spirit,
  8. commemorated on Whit Sunday.
  9.