Bible verse
On the first day you are to hold a sacred assembly; you are not to do any regular work.
Leviticus 23:7 · BSB
The verses around it, from Leviticus 23.
3 For six days work may be done, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of complete rest, a day of sacred assembly. You must not do any work; wherever you live, it is a Sabbath to the LORD.
4 These are the LORD’s appointed feasts, the sacred assemblies you are to proclaim at their appointed times.
5 The Passover to the LORD begins at twilight on the fourteenth day of the first month.
6 On the fifteenth day of the same month begins the Feast of Unleavened Bread to the LORD. For seven days you must eat unleavened bread.
7 On the first day you are to hold a sacred assembly; you are not to do any regular work.
8 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.’”
9 And the LORD said to Moses,
10 “Speak to the Israelites and say, ‘When you enter the land that I am giving you and you reap its harvest, you are to bring to the priest a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest.
11 And he shall wave the sheaf before the LORD so that it may be accepted on your behalf; the priest is to wave it on the day after the Sabbath.
KJV
In the first day ye shall have an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.
ASV
In the first day ye shall have a holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work.
ERV
In the first day ye shall have an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work.
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