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:
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;
- BSB 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.
- 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).
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- Exod 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.
- Exod 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.
- Lev 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:
- Lev 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 Cor 15:20But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept.
- Deut 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.
- Num 28:18In the first day shall be an holy convocation; ye shall do no manner of servile work therein:
- Jas 1:18Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
- 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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