Leviticus 23:35
in Leviticus 23On the first day there shall be a sacred assembly. You must not do any regular work.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
On the first day shall be a holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work.
KJV
On the first day shall be an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.
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This verse in Leviticus 23
Commentary
4 notes on this verseA commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
While the solid branches were reserved for the construction of the booths, the lighter branches were carried by men, who marched in triumphal procession, singing psalms and crying "Hosanna!" which signifies, "Save, we beseech thee!" (Ps 118:15, 25, 26). It was a season of great rejoicing.
This site's exposition
The fifteenth day of this seventh month
on Leviticus 23:34-36
Tabernacles runs seven days and then adds an eighth. The eighth day is a convocation and a solemn assembly of its own, standing outside the seven it follows, and the chapter gives it no rite beyond an offering made by fire. John 7:2 sets Jesus at this feast and John 7:37 has him standing and crying on the last day, that great day, with an offer of living water.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
On the first day shall be an holy convocation,....
The sacrifices to be offered on these eight days we have a very large appointment of, Num. xxix. (3.) During the first seven days of this feast all the people were to leave their houses, and the women and children in them, and to dwell in booths made of the boughs of thick trees, particularly palm trees,
How the passage was read
On Leviticus 23:1-44On Leviticus 23:1-44
The year Israel keeps
This chapter is the calendar of the whole Jewish year, and every feast in it is still on the calendar today. In order: the weekly Sabbath; Passover and Unleavened Bread in spring (now kept as the seder meal and a week without leavened bread); Firstfruits (the first sheaf of barley waved before God); Weeks, in Hebrew Shavuot, fifty days later (Christians know the Greek name: Pentecost); then in autumn the Day of Trumpets (now Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year, announced by the ram's-horn trumpet called a shofar), the Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur, the great fast), and Tabernacles, in Hebrew Sukkot, when families still build and eat in leafy backyard booths for a week, remembering the wilderness.
So when the New Testament says Jesus or Paul went up for “the feast,” it means one of these appointments: the same calendar, kept for over three thousand years.
This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.
Sources: The Feasts of the LORD (this site's study of all seven) · Mishnah Rosh Hashanah 1:1 (the four new years)
The words behind it
9 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| בַּיּ֥וֹם | baiyom | [is] on the day | H3117 → | 2304 times |
| הָרִאשׁ֖וֹן | harishon | <the> first | H7223 → | 182 times |
| מִקְרָא־ | mikra'- | a convocation of | H4744 → | 23 times |
| קֹ֑דֶשׁ | kodesh | holiness | H6944 → | 469 times |
| כָּל־ | kol- | any | H3605 → | 5413 times |
| מְלֶ֥אכֶת | melekhet | work of | H4399 → | 167 times |
| עֲבֹדָ֖ה | ʾavodah | servitude | H5656 → | 145 times |
| לֹ֥א | lo' | not | H3808 → | 5168 times |
| תַעֲשֽׂוּ׃ | taasu | you will do | H6213 → | 2628 times |
בַּיּ֥וֹם[is] on the day
baiyomH3117 →2304 times
הָרִאשׁ֖וֹן<the> first
harishonH7223 →182 times
מִקְרָא־a convocation of
mikra'-H4744 →23 times
קֹ֑דֶשׁholiness
kodeshH6944 →469 times
כָּל־any
kol-H3605 →5413 times
מְלֶ֥אכֶתwork of
melekhetH4399 →167 times
עֲבֹדָ֖הservitude
ʾavodahH5656 →145 times
לֹ֥אnot
lo'H3808 →5168 times
תַעֲשֽׂוּ׃you will do
taasuH6213 →2628 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
Where this verse is studied
About Leviticus
This page draws on Alfred Edersheim, The Temple: Its Ministry and Services; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.