And on the seventh day you shall have a holy convocation. You shall do no customary work.
Parallel translations
- WEB On the seventh day you shall have a holy convocation. You shall do no regular work.
- KJV And on the seventh day ye shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work.
- BSB On the seventh day you shall hold a sacred assembly; you must not do any regular 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.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 12
- 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 28:18In the first day shall be a holy convocation. You shall do no regular work;
- Exod 12:16In the first day there shall be to you a holy convocation, and in the seventh day a holy convocation; no kind of work shall be done in them, except that which every man must eat, that only may be done by you.
- Exod 13:6Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, and in the seventh day shall be a feast to Yahweh.
- Num 29:35“‘On the eighth day you shall have a solemn assembly: you shall do no regular work;
- Num 28:26“‘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 regular work;
- Num 29:1“‘In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall have a holy convocation; you shall do no regular work: it is a day of blowing of trumpets to you.
- Lev 23:3“‘Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, a holy convocation; you shall do no kind of work. It is a Sabbath to Yahweh in all your dwellings.
- 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.
- Lev 23:35–36On 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.’”
- Num 29:12“‘On the fifteenth day of the seventh month you shall have a holy convocation. You shall do no regular work. You shall keep a feast to Yahweh seven days.
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