Leviticus 23:7
On the first day of that festival, you all must stop your regular work and you must gather together to worship me.
Translation for Translators
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 23:8On each of the seven days, you must present to me several animals to be an offering/sacrifice to be completely burned on the altar. On the seventh day, you all must again stop your regular work and gather to worship me.”
Leviticus 23:25All of you must not do your regular work on that day. Instead, you must present offerings to me that will be burned on the altar.”
Leviticus 23:36On each of the seven days of the festival, they must present to me an offering of animals that will be burned on the altar. On the next day, they must gather again to worship me and present to me another animal that will be burned on the altar. That also will be a sacred gathering, and they must not work on that day, either.
Numbers 29:1“ Each year, gather together to worship me on the first day of the seventh month, and do not do any work on that day. On that day the priests must blow their 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 →