And on the seventh day ye shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work.
Parallel translations
- WEB On the seventh day you shall have a holy convocation. You shall do no regular work.
- BSB On the seventh day you shall hold a sacred assembly; you must not do any regular work.
- NKJV And on the seventh day you shall have a holy convocation. You shall do no customary work.
- NASB On the seventh day you shall have a holy assembly; you shall do no laborious work.
- NLT The seventh day of the festival will be another official day for holy assembly, and no ordinary work may be done on that day.
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Quick answer
Like the first day, the seventh day of the feast was a holy convocation with no regular work, sealing the week in sacred rest.
Overview
The festival both opened and closed with a holy assembly and rest from labor, framing the whole week as set apart for God. The bracketing days of rest underscored that the feast belonged wholly to the Lord. Such God-given rest points to the deeper rest believers enter through faith in Christ.
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Cross-references · 12
- Lev 23:8But ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD seven days: in the seventh day is an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.
- Num 28:18In the first day shall be an holy convocation; ye shall do no manner of servile work therein:
- Exod 12:16And 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.
- Exod 13:6Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, and in the seventh day shall be a feast to the LORD.
- Num 29:35On the eighth day ye shall have a solemn assembly: ye shall do no servile work therein:
- Num 28:26Also 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:
- Num 29:1And in the seventh month, on the first day of the month, ye shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work: it is a day of blowing the trumpets unto you.
- Lev 23:3Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day is the sabbath of rest, an holy convocation; ye shall do no work therein: it is the sabbath of the LORD in all your dwellings.
- Lev 23:21And 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.
- Lev 23:35–36On the first day shall be an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.
- Lev 23:25Ye shall do no servile work therein: but ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
- Num 29:12And on the fifteenth day of the seventh month ye shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work, and ye shall keep a feast unto the LORD seven days:
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