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You shall not do any ordinary work,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/bsb/numbers/28.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kjv/numbers/28.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br />Also in the day of the firstfruits, when ye bring a new meat offering unto the LORD, after your weeks <i>be out</i>, ye shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/numbers/28.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />‘Also on the day of the firstfruits, when you bring a new grain offering to the LORD at your <i>Feast of</i> Weeks, you shall have a holy convocation. You shall do no customary work.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/numbers/28.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />‘Also on the day of the first fruits, when you present a new grain offering to the LORD in your <i>Feast of</i> Weeks, you shall have a holy assembly; you shall do no laborious work.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/numbers/28.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />Also on the day of the first fruits, when you present a new grain offering to the LORD in your Feast of Weeks, you shall have a holy convocation; you shall do no laborious work.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/numbers/28.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />‘Also on the day of the first fruits, when you present a new grain offering to the LORD in your <i>Feast of</i> Weeks, you shall have a holy convocation; you shall do no laborious work.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/numbers/28.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />‘Also on the day of the first fruits, when you bring near a new grain offering to Yahweh in your <i>Feast of</i> Weeks, you shall have a holy convocation; you shall do no laborious work.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/numbers/28.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />‘Also on the day of the first fruits, when you offer a new grain offering to the LORD at your <i>Feast of</i> Weeks, you shall have a holy [summoned] assembly; you shall do no laborious work.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/numbers/28.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />“On the day of firstfruits, you are to hold a sacred assembly when you present an offering of new grain to the LORD at your Festival of Weeks; you are not to do any daily work.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/numbers/28.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />On the day of firstfruits, you are to hold a sacred assembly when you present an offering of new grain to the LORD at your Festival of Weeks; you are not to do any daily work. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/numbers/28.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />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;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cev/numbers/28.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />On the first day of the Harvest Festival, you must rest from your work, come together for worship, and bring a sacrifice of new grain. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/numbers/28.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />Also in the day of the firstfruits, when ye offer a new meal offering unto the LORD in your feast of weeks, ye shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/numbers/28.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />"During the Festival of Weeks, you must have a holy assembly. On that day you must not do any regular work. Bring the LORD your new grain offering, the first produce harvested from your fields.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/numbers/28.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />On the first day of the Harvest Festival, when you present the offering of new grain to the LORD, you are to gather for worship, and no work is to be done. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/numbers/28.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />"On the first day of your harvest season, you are to hold a sacred assembly when you present your first fruits during the Festival of Weeks. No servile work is to be done. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/numbers/28.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/numbers/28.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />"'Also, on the day of the first fruits, when you bring a new grain offering to the LORD during your Feast of Weeks, you are to have a holy assembly. You must do no ordinary work.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/numbers/28.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />"'Also in the day of the first fruits, when you offer a new meal offering to the LORD in your feast of weeks, you shall have a holy convocation; you shall do no servile work;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/numbers/28.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />Also in the day of the first-fruits, when ye bring a new meat-offering to the LORD, after your weeks are ended, ye shall have a holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/numbers/28.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />“‘Also in the day of the first fruits, when you offer a new meal offering to Yahweh in your feast of weeks, you shall have a holy convocation. You shall do no regular work; <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/numbers/28.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />And on the day of the first-fruits, in your bringing a new present near to YHWH, in your weeks, you have a holy convocation; you do no servile work.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/numbers/28.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> 'And in the day of the first-fruits, in your bringing near a new present to Jehovah, in your weeks, a holy convocation ye have; ye do no servile work;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/numbers/28.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />And in the day of the first-fruits, in your bringing near a new gift to Jehovah, in your sevens, a holy calling shall be to you; all work of service ye shall not do.<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/numbers/28.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />The day also of firstfruits, when after the weeks are accomplished, you shall offer new fruits to the Lord, shall be venerable and holy: you shall do no servile work therein. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/numbers/28.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br />And also the day of the first-fruits, after the weeks have been fulfilled, when you shall offer new fruits to the Lord, shall be venerable and holy. You shall not do any servile work in it.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/numbers/28.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />On the day of first fruits, on your feast of Weeks, when you present to the LORD an offering of new grain, you will declare a holy day: you shall do no heavy work.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/numbers/28.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />On the day of the first fruits, when you offer a grain offering of new grain to the LORD at your festival of weeks, you shall have a holy convocation; you shall not work at your occupations.<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/numbers/28.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />Also on the day of first fruits, when you offer a meal offering of new wheat to the LORD at your feast of weeks, you shall have a holy convocation; you shall do no manner of hard work;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hpbt/numbers/28.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a></span><br />And in the day of first fruits when you bring a meal offering from the new to LORD JEHOVAH in your weeks, it shall be announced and holy to you, and you shall do no work of labor:<div class="vheading2"><b>OT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/jps/numbers/28.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a></span><br />Also in the day of the first-fruits, when ye bring a new meal-offering unto the LORD in your feast of weeks, ye shall have a holy convocation: ye shall do no manner of servile work;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/sep/numbers/28.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a></span><br />And on the day of the new corn, when ye shall offer a new sacrifice <i>at the festival</i> of weeks to the Lord, there shall be to you a holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/numbers/28-26.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/yauBFvKLNNo?start=8850" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/numbers/28.htm">The Feast of Weeks</a></span><br> <span class="reftext">26</span><span class="highl"><a href="/hebrew/3117.htm" title="3117: ū·ḇə·yō·wm (Conj-w, Prep-b:: N-msc) -- Day. From an unused root meaning to be hot; a day, whether literal, or figurative.">On the day</a> <a href="/hebrew/1061.htm" title="1061: hab·bik·kū·rîm (Art:: N-mp) -- First fruits. From bakar; the first-fruits of the crop.">of firstfruits,</a> <a href="/hebrew/7126.htm" title="7126: bə·haq·rî·ḇə·ḵem (Prep-b:: V-Hifil-Inf:: 2mp) -- To come near, approach. A primitive root; to approach for whatever purpose.">when you present</a> <a href="/hebrew/2319.htm" title="2319: ḥă·ḏā·šāh (Adj-fs) -- New. From chadash; new.">an offering of new</a> <a href="/hebrew/4503.htm" title="4503: min·ḥāh (N-fs) -- From an unused root meaning to apportion, i.e. Bestow; a donation; euphemistically, tribute; specifically a sacrificial offering.">grain</a> <a href="/hebrew/3068.htm" title="3068: Yah·weh (Prep-l:: N-proper-ms) -- The proper name of the God of Israel. From hayah; self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God.">to the LORD</a> <a href="/hebrew/7620.htm" title="7620: bə·šā·ḇu·‘ō·ṯê·ḵem (Prep-b:: N-mpc:: 2mp) -- Or shabuan; also shbu.ah; properly, passive participle of shaba' as a denominative of sheba'; literal, sevened, i.e. A week.">during the Feast of Weeks,</a> <a href="/hebrew/1961.htm" title="1961: yih·yeh (V-Qal-Imperf-3ms) -- To fall out, come to pass, become, be. A primitive root; to exist, i.e. Be or become, come to pass.">you are to hold</a> <a href="/hebrew/lā·ḵem (Prep:: 2mp) -- "></a> <a href="/hebrew/6944.htm" title="6944: qō·ḏeš (N-ms) -- Apartness, sacredness. From qadash; a sacred place or thing; rarely abstract, sanctity.">a sacred</a> <a href="/hebrew/4744.htm" title="4744: miq·rā- (N-msc) -- A convocation, convoking, reading. From qara'; something called out, i.e. A public meeting; also a rehearsal.">assembly;</a> <a href="/hebrew/3808.htm" title="3808: lō (Adv-NegPrt) -- Not. Or lowi; or loh; a primitive particle; not; by implication, no; often used with other particles.">you must not</a> <a href="/hebrew/6213.htm" title="6213: ṯa·‘ă·śū (V-Qal-Imperf-2mp) -- To do, make. A primitive root; to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application.">do</a> <a href="/hebrew/3605.htm" title="3605: kāl- (N-msc) -- The whole, all. Or kowl; from kalal; properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every.">any</a> <a href="/hebrew/4399.htm" title="4399: mə·le·ḵeṯ (N-fsc) -- From the same as mal'ak; properly, deputyship, i.e. Ministry; generally, employment or work; also property.">regular work.</a> <a href="/hebrew/5656.htm" title="5656: ‘ă·ḇō·ḏāh (N-fs) -- Labor, service. Or mabowdah; from abad; work of any kind."></a> </span><span class="reftext">27</span>Present a burnt offering of two young bulls, one ram, and seven male lambs a year old as a pleasing aroma to the LORD,…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/leviticus/23-15.htm">Leviticus 23:15-21</a></span><br />From the day after the Sabbath, the day you brought the sheaf of the wave offering, you are to count off seven full weeks. / You shall count off fifty days until the day after the seventh Sabbath, and then present an offering of new grain to the LORD. / Bring two loaves of bread from your dwellings as a wave offering, each made from two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour, baked with leaven, as the firstfruits to the LORD. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/deuteronomy/16-9.htm">Deuteronomy 16:9-12</a></span><br />You are to count off seven weeks from the time you first put the sickle to the standing grain. / And you shall celebrate the Feast of Weeks to the LORD your God with a freewill offering that you give in proportion to how the LORD your God has blessed you, / and you shall rejoice before the LORD your God in the place He will choose as a dwelling for His Name—you, your sons and daughters, your menservants and maidservants, and the Levite within your gates, as well as the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widows among you. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/acts/2-1.htm">Acts 2:1-4</a></span><br />When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place. / Suddenly a sound like a mighty rushing wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting. / They saw tongues like flames of fire that separated and came to rest on each of them. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/exodus/23-16.htm">Exodus 23:16</a></span><br />You are also to keep the Feast of Harvest with the firstfruits of the produce from what you sow in the field. And keep the Feast of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather your produce from the field.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/exodus/34-22.htm">Exodus 34:22</a></span><br />And you are to celebrate the Feast of Weeks with the firstfruits of the wheat harvest, and the Feast of Ingathering at the turn of the year.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_corinthians/16-8.htm">1 Corinthians 16:8</a></span><br />But I will stay in Ephesus until Pentecost,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/leviticus/2-14.htm">Leviticus 2:14-16</a></span><br />If you bring a grain offering of firstfruits to the LORD, you shall offer crushed heads of new grain roasted on the fire. / And you are to put oil and frankincense on it; it is a grain offering. / The priest shall then burn the memorial portion of the crushed grain and the oil, together with all its frankincense, as a food offering to the LORD.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_chronicles/8-13.htm">2 Chronicles 8:13</a></span><br />He observed the daily requirement for offerings according to the commandment of Moses for Sabbaths, New Moons, and the three annual appointed feasts—the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Weeks, and the Feast of Tabernacles.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/joel/2-28.htm">Joel 2:28-32</a></span><br />And afterward, I will pour out My Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions. / Even on My menservants and maidservants, I will pour out My Spirit in those days. / I will show wonders in the heavens and on the earth, blood and fire and columns of smoke. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/acts/20-16.htm">Acts 20:16</a></span><br />Paul had decided to sail past Ephesus to avoid spending time in the province of Asia, because he was in a hurry to reach Jerusalem, if possible, by the day of Pentecost.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/ruth/2-23.htm">Ruth 2:23</a></span><br />So Ruth stayed close to the servant girls of Boaz to glean grain until the barley and wheat harvests were finished. And she lived with her mother-in-law.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/matthew/9-37.htm">Matthew 9:37-38</a></span><br />Then He said to His disciples, “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. / Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into His harvest.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/john/4-35.htm">John 4:35-36</a></span><br />Do you not say, ‘There are still four months until the harvest’? I tell you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, for they are ripe for harvest. / Already the reaper draws his wages and gathers a crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may rejoice together.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/romans/8-23.htm">Romans 8:23</a></span><br />Not only that, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/james/1-18.htm">James 1:18</a></span><br />He chose to give us birth through the word of truth, that we would be a kind of firstfruits of His creation.</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">Also in the day of the first fruits, when you bring a new meat offering to the LORD, after your weeks be out, you shall have an holy convocation; you shall do no servile work:</p><p class="hdg">two young</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/numbers/28-11.htm">Numbers 28:11,19</a></b></br> And in the beginnings of your months ye shall offer a burnt offering unto the LORD; two young bullocks, and one ram, seven lambs of the first year without spot; … </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/leviticus/23-18.htm">Leviticus 23:18,19</a></b></br> And ye shall offer with the bread seven lambs without blemish of the first year, and one young bullock, and two rams: they shall be <i>for</i> a burnt offering unto the LORD, with their meat offering, and their drink offerings, <i>even</i> an offering made by fire, of sweet savour unto the LORD… </p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/numbers/28-25.htm">Assembly</a> <a href="/numbers/28-20.htm">Cereal</a> <a href="/numbers/28-25.htm">Convocation</a> <a href="/numbers/16-31.htm">Ended</a> <a href="/numbers/28-25.htm">Hold</a> <a href="/numbers/28-25.htm">Holy</a> <a href="/numbers/28-25.htm">Manner</a> <a href="/numbers/28-13.htm">Meal</a> <a href="/numbers/28-20.htm">Meal-Offering</a> <a href="/numbers/28-24.htm">Meat</a> <a href="/numbers/28-20.htm">Meat-Offering</a> <a href="/numbers/28-25.htm">Meeting</a> <a href="/numbers/28-14.htm">New</a> <a href="/numbers/28-24.htm">Offer</a> <a href="/numbers/28-24.htm">Offering</a> <a href="/numbers/28-23.htm">Present</a> <a href="/numbers/28-25.htm">Regular</a> <a href="/numbers/28-25.htm">Sacred</a> <a href="/numbers/28-25.htm">Servile</a> <a href="/numbers/28-2.htm">Time</a> <a href="/leviticus/25-8.htm">Weeks</a> <a href="/numbers/28-25.htm">Work</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/numbers/29-1.htm">Assembly</a> <a href="/numbers/28-31.htm">Cereal</a> <a href="/numbers/29-1.htm">Convocation</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/20-9.htm">Ended</a> <a href="/numbers/29-1.htm">Hold</a> <a href="/numbers/29-1.htm">Holy</a> <a href="/numbers/29-1.htm">Manner</a> <a href="/numbers/28-28.htm">Meal</a> <a href="/numbers/28-28.htm">Meal-Offering</a> <a href="/numbers/28-28.htm">Meat</a> <a href="/numbers/28-28.htm">Meat-Offering</a> <a href="/numbers/29-1.htm">Meeting</a> <a href="/numbers/29-6.htm">New</a> <a href="/numbers/28-31.htm">Offer</a> <a href="/numbers/28-27.htm">Offering</a> <a href="/numbers/28-27.htm">Present</a> <a href="/numbers/28-31.htm">Regular</a> <a href="/numbers/29-1.htm">Sacred</a> <a href="/numbers/29-1.htm">Servile</a> <a href="/numbers/30-6.htm">Time</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/16-9.htm">Weeks</a> <a href="/numbers/29-1.htm">Work</a><div class="vheading2">Numbers 28</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/numbers/28-1.htm">Offerings are to be observed</a></span><br><span class="reftext">3. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/numbers/28-3.htm">The continual burnt offering</a></span><br><span class="reftext">9. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/numbers/28-9.htm">The offering on the Sabbath</a></span><br><span class="reftext">11. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/numbers/28-11.htm">On the new Moons</a></span><br><span class="reftext">16. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/numbers/28-16.htm">At the Passover</a></span><br><span class="reftext">26. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/numbers/28-26.htm">In the day of the firstfruits</a></span><br></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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It marks the end of the grain harvest, specifically the wheat harvest, and is one of the three major pilgrimage festivals in Israel. The "day of firstfruits" signifies the offering of the first portion of the harvest to God, acknowledging His provision and sovereignty. This concept of firstfruits is echoed in the New Testament, where Christ is referred to as the "firstfruits" of those who have fallen asleep (<a href="/1_corinthians/15-20.htm">1 Corinthians 15:20</a>), symbolizing the promise of resurrection and eternal life.<p><b>when you present an offering of new grain to the LORD</b><br>The offering of new grain, or the firstfruits, was a way for the Israelites to express gratitude and dependence on God for their sustenance. This act of giving the first and best of the harvest to the LORD was a demonstration of faith and trust in His continued provision. The grain offering was a significant part of the sacrificial system, symbolizing dedication and consecration to God. In a broader sense, it points to the ultimate offering of Jesus Christ, who is the bread of life (<a href="/john/6-35.htm">John 6:35</a>).<p><b>during the Feast of Weeks</b><br>The Feast of Weeks, occurring seven weeks after Passover, is a time of joy and thanksgiving for the harvest. It is also associated with the giving of the Torah at Mount Sinai, which is celebrated by Jewish tradition during this feast. This connection highlights the dual themes of physical and spiritual sustenance. In the New Testament, Pentecost, which coincides with the Feast of Weeks, is the day the Holy Spirit descended upon the apostles, marking the birth of the Church (<a href="/acts/2.htm">Acts 2:1-4</a>).<p><b>you are to hold a sacred assembly</b><br>A sacred assembly, or holy convocation, was a gathering of the people for worship and reflection. It was a time set apart for communal worship, prayer, and the reading of the Law. This practice underscores the importance of community in worship and the collective acknowledgment of God's blessings. The concept of a sacred assembly is seen in the New Testament as the early Christians gathered together for prayer and fellowship (<a href="/acts/2-42.htm">Acts 2:42</a>).<p><b>you must not do any regular work</b><br>The prohibition against regular work emphasizes the need for rest and focus on spiritual matters during holy days. It reflects the principle of Sabbath rest, which is a recurring theme throughout Scripture, reminding believers of their dependence on God and the importance of setting aside time for worship and reflection. This rest is a foretaste of the eternal rest promised to believers in Christ (<a href="/hebrews/4-9.htm">Hebrews 4:9-10</a>).<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <b><a href="/topical/t/the_israelites.htm">The Israelites</a></b><br>The chosen people of God, who are given specific instructions on how to worship and honor God through offerings and feasts.<br><br>2. <b><a href="/topical/t/the_lord.htm">The LORD (Yahweh)</a></b><br>The God of Israel, who commands the observance of the Feast of Weeks and the offering of firstfruits.<br><br>3. <b><a href="/topical/f/feast_of_weeks.htm">Feast of Weeks (Shavuot)</a></b><br>A significant Jewish festival occurring seven weeks after Passover, celebrating the firstfruits of the wheat harvest and later associated with the giving of the Torah at Sinai.<br><br>4. <b><a href="/topical/f/firstfruits.htm">Firstfruits</a></b><br>The initial yield of the harvest, offered to God as a sign of gratitude and acknowledgment of His provision.<br><br>5. <b><a href="/topical/s/sacred_assembly.htm">Sacred Assembly</a></b><br>A holy gathering of the people, set apart for worship and rest, emphasizing community and devotion to God.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><b><a href="/topical/g/gratitude_and_acknowledgment.htm">Gratitude and Acknowledgment</a></b><br>The offering of firstfruits is a tangible expression of gratitude to God for His provision. As believers, we are called to acknowledge God's blessings in our lives and offer Him the first and best of what we have.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/c/community_and_worship.htm">Community and Worship</a></b><br>The sacred assembly highlights the importance of gathering together as a community to worship God. In our modern context, this underscores the value of corporate worship and fellowship within the church.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/r/rest_and_reflection.htm">Rest and Reflection</a></b><br>The command to refrain from regular work during the Feast of Weeks invites us to rest and reflect on God's goodness. It is a reminder to prioritize spiritual rest and renewal in our busy lives.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/s/spiritual_harvest.htm">Spiritual Harvest</a></b><br>Just as the Israelites celebrated the physical harvest, we are called to consider the spiritual harvest in our lives. This includes the fruits of the Spirit and the impact of our witness to others.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_numbers_28.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Numbers 28</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/how_did_early_israelites_offer_firstfruits.htm">How did early Israelites fulfill the centralized requirement of bringing firstfruits (Deuteronomy 26) before a formal temple or priesthood was consistently established?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/are_we_already_condemned.htm">What is the Feast of Firstfruits?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/what_are_the_bible's_jewish_feasts.htm">What are the Jewish feasts and festivals in the Bible?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/how_can_we_live_a_godly_life_daily.htm">What is the significance of offering firstfruits to God?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/numbers/28.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(26) <span class= "bld">In the day of the firstfruits.--</span>See <a href="/exodus/23-16.htm" title="And the feast of harvest, the first fruits of your labors, which you have sown in the field: and the feast of ingathering, which is in the end of the year, when you have gathered in your labors out of the field.">Exodus 23:16</a>; <a href="/exodus/34-22.htm" title="And you shall observe the feast of weeks, of the first fruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the year's end.">Exodus 34:22</a>; <a href="/context/leviticus/23-15.htm" title="And you shall count to you from the morrow after the sabbath, from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven sabbaths shall be complete:">Leviticus 23:15-21</a>, and Notes.<p><span class= "bld">A new meat offering . . . --</span>See <a href="/leviticus/23-16.htm" title="Even to the morrow after the seventh sabbath shall you number fifty days; and you shall offer a new meat offering to the LORD.">Leviticus 23:16</a>.<p><span class= "bld">After your weeks be out.--</span>Hebrew, <span class= "ital">in your weeks</span>--<span class= "ital">i.e., </span>at the expiration of a week of weeks from the morrow after the chief day of the feast of the Passover.<p><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/numbers/28.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 26.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">In the day of the first-fruits.</span> The feast of weeks, or day of Pentecost (<a href="/leviticus/23-15.htm">Leviticus 23:15-21</a>). <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/numbers/28-26.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div><span class="word">On the day</span><br /><span class="heb">וּבְי֣וֹם</span> <span class="translit">(ū·ḇə·yō·wm)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw, Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3117.htm">Strong's 3117: </a> </span><span class="str2">A day</span><br /><br /><span class="word">of firstfruits,</span><br /><span class="heb">הַבִּכּוּרִ֗ים</span> <span class="translit">(hab·bik·kū·rîm)</span><br /><span class="parse">Article | Noun - masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1061.htm">Strong's 1061: </a> </span><span class="str2">The first-fruits of the crop</span><br /><br /><span class="word">when you present</span><br /><span class="heb">בְּהַקְרִ֨יבְכֶ֜ם</span> <span class="translit">(bə·haq·rî·ḇə·ḵem)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-b | Verb - Hifil - Infinitive construct | second person masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7126.htm">Strong's 7126: </a> </span><span class="str2">To come near, approach</span><br /><br /><span class="word">an offering of new</span><br /><span class="heb">חֲדָשָׁה֙</span> <span class="translit">(ḥă·ḏā·šāh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Adjective - feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_2319.htm">Strong's 2319: </a> </span><span class="str2">New</span><br /><br /><span class="word">grain</span><br /><span class="heb">מִנְחָ֤ה</span> <span class="translit">(min·ḥāh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_4503.htm">Strong's 4503: </a> </span><span class="str2">A donation, tribute, a sacrificial offering</span><br /><br /><span class="word">to the LORD</span><br /><span class="heb">לַֽיהוָ֔ה</span> <span class="translit">(Yah·weh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-l | Noun - proper - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3068.htm">Strong's 3068: </a> </span><span class="str2">LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel</span><br /><br /><span class="word">during the Feast of Weeks,</span><br /><span class="heb">בְּשָׁבֻעֹ֖תֵיכֶ֑ם</span> <span class="translit">(bə·šā·ḇu·‘ō·ṯê·ḵem)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-b | Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7620.htm">Strong's 7620: </a> </span><span class="str2">A period of seven (days, years), heptad, week</span><br /><br /><span class="word">you are to hold</span><br /><span class="heb">יִהְיֶ֣ה</span> <span class="translit">(yih·yeh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1961.htm">Strong's 1961: </a> </span><span class="str2">To fall out, come to pass, become, be</span><br /><br /><span class="word">a sacred</span><br /><span class="heb">קֹ֙דֶשׁ֙</span> <span class="translit">(qō·ḏeš)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_6944.htm">Strong's 6944: </a> </span><span class="str2">A sacred place, thing, sanctity</span><br /><br /><span class="word">assembly;</span><br /><span class="heb">מִֽקְרָא־</span> <span class="translit">(miq·rā-)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_4744.htm">Strong's 4744: </a> </span><span class="str2">Something called out, a public meeting, a rehearsal</span><br /><br /><span class="word">you are not</span><br /><span class="heb">לֹ֥א</span> <span class="translit">(lō)</span><br /><span class="parse">Adverb - Negative particle<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3808.htm">Strong's 3808: </a> </span><span class="str2">Not, no</span><br /><br /><span class="word">to do</span><br /><span class="heb">תַעֲשֽׂוּ׃</span> <span class="translit">(ṯa·‘ă·śū)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_6213.htm">Strong's 6213: </a> </span><span class="str2">To do, make</span><br /><br /><span class="word">any</span><br /><span class="heb">כָּל־</span> <span class="translit">(kāl-)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3605.htm">Strong's 3605: </a> </span><span class="str2">The whole, all, any, every</span><br /><br /><span class="word">regular work.</span><br /><span class="heb">מְלֶ֥אכֶת</span> <span class="translit">(mə·le·ḵeṯ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - feminine singular construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_4399.htm">Strong's 4399: </a> </span><span class="str2">Deputyship, ministry, employment, work, property</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/numbers/28-26.htm">Numbers 28:26 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/numbers/28-26.htm">Numbers 28:26 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/numbers/28-26.htm">Numbers 28:26 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/numbers/28-26.htm">Numbers 28:26 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/numbers/28-26.htm">Numbers 28:26 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/numbers/28-26.htm">Numbers 28:26 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/numbers/28-26.htm">Numbers 28:26 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/numbers/28-26.htm">Numbers 28:26 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/numbers/28-26.htm">Numbers 28:26 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/numbers/28-26.htm">Numbers 28:26 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/numbers/28-26.htm">OT Law: Numbers 28:26 Also in the day of the first (Nu Num.) </a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/numbers/28-25.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Numbers 28:25"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Numbers 28:25" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/numbers/28-27.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Numbers 28:27"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Numbers 28:27" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>