Leviticus 23:8
For seven days you shall present food offerings to the Lord. There is to be a holy meeting on the seventh day. You must not do any of your usual work.”
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In Context
7On the first day you are to hold a holy meeting. You must not do any of your usual work.
Cross References
Exodus 13:6For seven days you are to only eat bread without yeast, and on the seventh day hold a religious festival to honor the Lord.
Numbers 28:18Hold a holy meeting on the first day of the festival. Don't do any of your normal work.
Numbers 28:26During the time you celebrate the Festival of Weeks, hold a holy meeting on the day of firstfruits when you present an offering of new grain to the Lord. Don't do any of your normal work.
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 →