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Leviticus 23:8

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For seven days you are to present an offering made by fire to the LORD. On the seventh 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

But ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto Jehovah seven days: in the seventh day is a holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work.

KJV

But ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord seven days: in the seventh day is an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.

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This verse in Leviticus 23

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

On the first day you are to hold a sacred assembly

on Leviticus 23:7-9

The week of Unleavened Bread opens and closes with a sacred assembly, with an offering made by fire each day. Only regular work is barred on these days, but all work on the Sabbath and the Day of Atonement.

This site's exposition

there shall be a sacred assembly

The chapter names the fire offering for each of the seven days and leaves its contents to Numbers 28. Matthew Henry reads a sacred assembly as gathering whoever could reach the tabernacle door. Others met elsewhere for prayer, praise and the reading of the law.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

But ye shall offer an offering made by, fire unto the Lord seven days,....

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

They were not idle days spent in sport and recreation (as many that are called Christians spend their holy days), but offerings were made by fire unto the Lord at his altar; and we have reason to think that the people were taught to employ their time in prayer, and praise, and godly meditation.

How the passage was read

On Leviticus 23:1-44

On 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

14 Hebrew words

Every 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.

  • וְהִקְרַבְתֶּ֥םand you will present

    vehikravtemH7126 →280 times

  • אִשֶּׁ֛הa fire offering

    ʾishehH801 →65 times

  • לַיהוָ֖הto Yahweh

    layahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • שִׁבְעַ֣תseven

    shivatH7651 →394 times

  • יָמִ֑יםdays

    yamimH3117 →2304 times

  • בַּיּ֤וֹם[is] on the day

    baiyomH3117 →2304 times

  • הַשְּׁבִיעִי֙<the> seventh

    hasheviiH7637 →98 times

  • מִקְרָא־a convocation of

    mikra'-H4744 →23 times

  • קֹ֔דֶשׁholiness

    kodeshH6944 →469 times

  • כָּל־any

    kol-H3605 →5413 times

  • מְלֶ֥אכֶתwork of

    melekhetH4399 →167 times

  • עֲבֹדָ֖הservitude

    ʾavodahH5656 →145 times

  • לֹ֥אnot

    lo'H3808 →5168 times

  • תַעֲשֽׂוּ׃ פyou will do

    taasuH6213 →2628 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

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About Leviticus

The Scapegoat, William Holman Hunt, 1854. Public domain.
The Scapegoat, William Holman Hunt, 1854. Public domain.
Leviticus: the study guide →Read Leviticus 23 →

This page draws on John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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