KJV King James Version
Also in the day of the firstfruits, when ye bring a new meat offering unto the LORD, after your weeks [be out], ye shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work:
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Numbers 28:26
Also in the day of the firstfruits, when ye bring a new meat offering unto the LORD, after your weeks [be out], ye shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work:
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
On the day of firstfruits, when you present an offering of new grain to the LORD during the Feast of Weeks, you are to hold a sacred assembly; you must not do any regular work.
WEB World English Bible
“‘Also in the day of the first fruits, when you offer a new meal offering to Yahweh in your feast of weeks, you shall have a holy convocation; you shall do no servile work;
ASV American Standard Version
Also in the day of the first-fruits, when ye offer a new meal-offering unto Jehovah in your feast of weeks, ye shall have a holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work;
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
‘And in the day of the first-fruits, in your bringing near a new present to Jehovah, in your weeks, a holy convocation ye have; ye do no servile work;
Surrounding context — Numbers 28
23 Ye shall offer these beside the burnt offering in the morning, which [is] for a continual burnt offering.
24 After this manner ye shall offer daily, throughout the seven days, the meat of the sacrifice made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD: it shall be offered beside the continual burnt offering, and his drink offering.
25 And on the seventh day ye shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work.
26 Also in the day of the firstfruits, when ye bring a new meat offering unto the LORD, after your weeks [be out], ye shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work:
27 But ye shall offer the burnt offering for a sweet savour unto the LORD; two young bullocks, one ram, seven lambs of the first year;
28 And their meat offering of flour mingled with oil, three tenth deals unto one bullock, two tenth deals unto one ram,
29 A several tenth deal unto one lamb, throughout the seven lambs;
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וּבְי֣וֹםH3117 · yomdayהַבִּכּוּרִ֗יםH1061 · bik.kurfirstfruitבְּהַקְרִ֨יבְכֶ֜םH7126 · qa.ravto present: comeמִנְחָ֤הH4503 · min.chahofferingחֲדָשָׁה֙H2319 · cha.dashNew (Gate)לַֽיהוָ֔הH3068 · ye.ho.vahLORDבְּשָׁבֻעֹ֖תֵיכֶ֑םH7620 · sha.vu.aWeeksמִֽקְרָא־H4744 · miq.raassemblyקֹ֙דֶשׁ֙H6944 · qo.deshholinessיִהְיֶ֣הH1961 · ha.yahto beלָכֶ֔םH9036 · khemyouכָּל־H3605 · kolallמְלֶ֥אכֶתH4399 · me.la.khahworkעֲבֹדָ֖הH5656 · a.vo.dahserviceלֹ֥אH3808 · lonotתַעֲשֽׂוּ׃H6213 · a.sahto make: do
Cross-references
Exodus 34:22And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, of the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the year’s end.Exodus 23:16And the feast of harvest, the firstfruits of thy labours, which thou hast sown in the field: and the feast of ingathering, [which is] in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labours out of the field.Leviticus 23:10Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come into the land which I give unto you, and shall reap the harvest thereof, then ye shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest unto the priest:Deuteronomy 16:9-11Seven weeks shalt thou number unto thee: begin to number the seven weeks from [such time as] thou beginnest [to put] the sickle to the corn.Leviticus 23:15-21And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the sabbath, from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven sabbaths shall be complete:1 Corinthians 15:20But now is Christ risen from the dead, [and] become the firstfruits of them that slept.James 1:18Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.Numbers 28:18In the first day [shall be] an holy convocation; ye shall do no manner of servile work [therein]:Acts 2:1-13And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place.
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