Leviticus 23:7
The first day shall be greatly honored and holy to you; you shall do no servile work in it.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
In the first day ye shall have an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.
In Context
Cross References
Leviticus 23:8But you shall offer a sacrifice with fire, for seven days, to the Lord. Then the seventh day shall be more honored and more holy; and you shall do no servile work in it.
Leviticus 23:25You shall do no servile work in it, and you shall offer a holocaust to the Lord.
Leviticus 23:36And for seven days you shall offer holocausts to the Lord. Likewise, the eighth day shall be most honored and most holy, and you shall offer holocausts to the Lord. For it is the day of assembly and gathering. You shall do no servile work in it.
Numbers 29:1“Now the first day of the seventh month also shall be venerable and holy to you. In it, you shall not do any servile work, because it is the day of the sounding of the trumpets.
Matthew Henry on Leviticus 23:5-15
4 These are the feasts of the Lord , even holy convocations, which ye shall proclaim in their seasons. 5 In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the Lord 's passover. 6 And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread unto the Lord : seven days ye must eat unleavened bread. 7 In the first day ye shall have an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein. 8 But ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord seven days: in the seventh day is an holy convocation:… Read the whole commentary →