Numbers 28:26

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:

Also in the day {H3117} of the firstfruits {H1061}, when ye bring {H7126} a new {H2319} meat offering {H4503} unto the LORD {H3068}, after your weeks {H7620} be out, ye shall have an holy {H6944} convocation {H4744}; ye shall do {H6213} no servile {H5656} work {H4399}:

"'On the day of the firstfruits, when you bring a new grain offering to ADONAI in your feast of Shavu'ot, you are to have a holy convocation; do not do any kind of ordinary work;

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.

Also in the day of the first-fruits, when ye offer a new meal-offering unto Jehovah in your feast of weeks, ye shall have a holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work;

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Cross-References

  • Exodus 34:22 (5 votes)

    And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, of the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the year's end.

  • Exodus 23:16 (5 votes)

    And 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.

  • Leviticus 23:10 (4 votes)

    Speak 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:

  • Leviticus 23:15 (3 votes)

    ¶ And 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:

  • Leviticus 23:21 (3 votes)

    And ye shall proclaim on the selfsame day, [that] it may be an holy convocation unto you: ye shall do no servile work [therein: it shall be] a statute for ever in all your dwellings throughout your generations.

  • 1 Corinthians 15:20 (3 votes)

    ¶ But now is Christ risen from the dead, [and] become the firstfruits of them that slept.

  • Deuteronomy 16:9 (3 votes)

    Seven 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.