‘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.
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:
- 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.
- 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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Quick answer
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 34:22“You shall observe the feast of weeks with the first fruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of harvest at the year’s end.
- Exod 23:16And the feast of harvest, the first fruits of your labors, which you sow in the field; and the feast of ingathering, at the end of the year, when you gather in your labors out of the field.
- Lev 23:10“Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘When you have come into the land which I give to you, and shall reap its harvest, then you shall bring the sheaf of the first fruits of your harvest to the priest:
- Lev 23:15–21“‘You shall count from the next day after the Sabbath, from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven Sabbaths shall be completed:
- 1 Cor 15:20But now Christ has been raised from the dead. He became the first fruits of those who are asleep.
- Deut 16:9–11You shall count for yourselves seven weeks. From the time you begin to put the sickle to the standing grain you shall begin to count seven weeks.
- Num 28:18In the first day shall be a holy convocation. You shall do no regular work;
- Jas 1:18Of his own will he gave birth to us by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.
- Acts 2:1–13Now when the day of Pentecost had come, they were all with one accord in one place.
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