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.
Parallel translations
- WEB “‘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;
- KJV 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:
- NKJV ‘Also on the day of the firstfruits, when you bring a new grain offering to the Lord at your Feast of Weeks, you shall have a holy convocation. You shall do no customary work.
- NASB ‘Also on the day of the first fruits, when you present a new grain offering to the Lord in your Feast of Weeks, you shall have a holy assembly; you shall do no laborious work.
- NLT “At the Festival of Harvest, when you present the first of your new grain to the Lord, you must call an official day for holy assembly, and you may do no ordinary work on that day.
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On the day of firstfruits, the Feast of Weeks, Israel brought a new grain offering and held a holy convocation, doing no regular work.
Overview
The Feast of Weeks, fifty days after Passover, celebrated the wheat harvest by offering its firstfruits to God in grateful acknowledgment that the increase came from Him. It was marked by sacred assembly and rest. This feast, later called Pentecost, became the day the Spirit was poured out, the firstfruits of the gospel harvest in Christ (Acts 2).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 9
- Exod 34:22And you are to celebrate the Feast of Weeks with the firstfruits of the wheat harvest, and the Feast of Ingathering at the turn of the year.
- Exod 23:16You are also to keep the Feast of Harvest with the firstfruits of the produce from what you sow in the field. And keep the Feast of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather your produce from the field.
- Lev 23:10“Speak to the Israelites and say, ‘When you enter the land that I am giving you and you reap its harvest, you are to bring to the priest a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest.
- Lev 23:15–21From the day after the Sabbath, the day you brought the sheaf of the wave offering, you are to count off seven full weeks.
- 1 Cor 15:20But Christ has indeed been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.
- Deut 16:9–11You are to count off seven weeks from the time you first put the sickle to the standing grain.
- Num 28:18On the first day there is to be a sacred assembly; you must not do any regular work.
- Jas 1:18He chose to give us birth through the word of truth, that we would be a kind of firstfruits of His creation.
- Acts 2:1–13When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place.
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