On the first day you shall have a holy convocation; you shall not do any laborious work.
Parallel translations
- WEB In the first day you shall have a holy convocation. You shall do no regular work.
- KJV In the first day ye shall have an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.
- BSB On the first day you are to hold a sacred assembly; you are not to do any regular work.
- NKJV On the first day you shall have a holy convocation; you shall do no customary work on it.
- NLT On the first day of the festival, all the people must stop their ordinary work and observe an official day for holy assembly.
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Quick answer
The first day of Unleavened Bread is a holy convocation on which no regular work is done.
Overview
The feast opened with a sacred assembly set apart from ordinary labor. Rest and gathering marked the day as devoted to God and the remembrance of redemption. Such rhythms of holy rest trained Israel to find their life in God, a foretaste of the rest believers have in Christ.
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Cross-references · 5
- Lev 23:8But you shall offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh seven days. In the seventh day is a holy convocation: you shall do no regular work.’”
- Num 28:18–25In the first day shall be a holy convocation. You shall do no regular work;
- Lev 23:25You shall do no regular work; and you shall offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh.’”
- Lev 23:35–36On the first day shall be a holy convocation: you shall do no regular work.
- Lev 23:21You 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.
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