KJV King James Version
And ye shall proclaim on the selfsame day, [that] it may be an holy convocation unto you: ye shall do no servile work [therein: it shall be] a statute for ever in all your dwellings throughout your generations.
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Leviticus 23:21
And ye shall proclaim on the selfsame day, [that] it may be an holy convocation unto you: ye shall do no servile work [therein: it shall be] a statute for ever in all your dwellings throughout your generations.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
On that same day you are to proclaim a sacred assembly, and you must not do any regular work. This is to be a permanent statute wherever you live for the generations to come.
WEB World English Bible
You shall make proclamation on the same day: there shall be a holy convocation to you; you shall do no regular work. This is a statute forever in all your dwellings throughout your generations.
ASV American Standard Version
And ye shall make proclamation on the selfsame day; there shall be a holy convocation unto you; ye shall do no servile work: it is a statute for ever in all your dwellings throughout your generations.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
and ye have proclaimed on this self-same day: a holy convocation is to you, ye do no servile work—a statute age-during in all your dwellings, to your generations.
Surrounding context — Leviticus 23
18 And ye shall offer with the bread seven lambs without blemish of the first year, and one young bullock, and two rams: they shall be [for] a burnt offering unto the LORD, with their meat offering, and their drink offerings, [even] an offering made by fire, of sweet savour unto the LORD.
19 Then ye shall sacrifice one kid of the goats for a sin offering, and two lambs of the first year for a sacrifice of peace offerings.
20 And the priest shall wave them with the bread of the firstfruits [for] a wave offering before the LORD, with the two lambs: they shall be holy to the LORD for the priest.
21 And ye shall proclaim on the selfsame day, [that] it may be an holy convocation unto you: ye shall do no servile work [therein: it shall be] a statute for ever in all your dwellings throughout your generations.
22 And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not make clean riddance of the corners of thy field when thou reapest, neither shalt thou gather any gleaning of thy harvest: thou shalt leave them unto the poor, and to the stranger: I [am] the LORD your God.
23 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
24 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, in the first [day] of the month, shall ye have a sabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, an holy convocation.
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וּקְרָאתֶ֞םH7121 · qa.rato call: call toבְּעֶ֣צֶם׀H6106 · e.tsemboneהַיּ֣וֹםH3117 · yomdayהַזֶּ֗הH2088 · zehthisמִֽקְרָא־H4744 · miq.raassemblyקֹ֙דֶשׁ֙H6944 · qo.deshholinessיִהְיֶ֣הH1961 · ha.yahto beלָכֶ֔םH9036 · khemyouכָּל־H3605 · kolallמְלֶ֥אכֶתH4399 · me.la.khahworkעֲבֹדָ֖הH5656 · a.vo.dahserviceלֹ֣אH3808 · lonotתַעֲשׂ֑וּH6213 · a.sahto make: doחֻקַּ֥תH2708 · chuq.qahstatuteעוֹלָ֛םH5769 · o.lamforever: enduringבְּכָל־H3605 · kolallמוֹשְׁבֹ֥תֵיכֶ֖םH4186 · mo.shavseatלְדֹרֹֽתֵיכֶֽם׃H1755 · dorgeneration
Cross-references
Leviticus 23:2Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, [Concerning] the feasts of the LORD, which ye shall proclaim [to be] holy convocations, [even] these [are] my feasts.Genesis 17:7And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.Leviticus 23:4These [are] the feasts of the LORD, [even] holy convocations, which ye shall proclaim in their seasons.Numbers 18:23But the Levites shall do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation, and they shall bear their iniquity: [it shall be] a statute for ever throughout your generations, that among the children of Israel they have no inheritance.Leviticus 23:14And ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn, nor green ears, until the selfsame day that ye have brought an offering unto your God: [it shall be] a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.Deuteronomy 16:11And thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that [is] within thy gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that [are] among you, in the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen to place his name there.Isaiah 11:10And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of the people; to it shall the Gentiles seek: and his rest shall be glorious.Leviticus 23:7In the first day ye shall have an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.Exodus 12:16-17And in the first day [there shall be] an holy convocation, and in the seventh day there shall be an holy convocation to you; no manner of work shall be done in them, save [that] which every man must eat, that only may be done of you.
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