Bible Strands
Leviticus 23:28
On this day you are not to do any work, for it is the Day of Atonement, when atonement is made for you before the LORD your God.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — God addresses Moses and the Israelites while detailing the appointed feasts in Leviticus 23.
The words — The Hebrew מְלָאכָה (melakhah) denotes labor or work, while בְּעֶצֶם (be'etzem) literally means on the very substance or day itself.
The thread — Leviticus 16:34 establishes this prohibition as a permanent annual statute for Israel’s atonement.
Why it lands — The text commands absolute cessation of labor on the tenth day of the seventh month because atonement is being made before God. It requires the reader to recognize that divine forgiveness precedes and enables human rest.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
And ye shall do no work in that same day: for it is a day of atonement, to make an atonement for you before the Lord your God.
Cross-references
- Leviticus 16:34 This is to be a permanent statute for you, to make atonement once a year for the Israelites because of all their sins.” And all this was done as the LORD had commanded Moses.
- Zechariah 3:9 See the stone I have set before Joshua; on that one stone are seven eyes. Behold, I will engrave on it an inscription, declares the LORD of Hosts, and I will remove the iniquity of this land in a single day.
- Isaiah 53:10 Yet it was the LORD’s will to crush Him and to cause Him to suffer; and when His soul is made a guilt offering, He will see His offspring, He will prolong His days, and the good pleasure of the LORD will prosper in His hand.
- Daniel 9:24 Seventy weeks are decreed for your people and your holy city to stop their transgression, to put an end to sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy Place.
- Romans 5:10 For if, when we were enemies of God, we were reconciled to Him through the death of His Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through His life!
- Hebrews 9:12 He did not enter by the blood of goats and calves, but He entered the Most Holy Place once for all by His own blood, thus securing eternal redemption.
- Hebrews 9:26 Otherwise, Christ would have had to suffer repeatedly since the foundation of the world. But now He has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to do away with sin by the sacrifice of Himself.
- Hebrews 10:10 And by that will, we have been sanctified through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
- Hebrews 10:14 because by a single offering He has made perfect for all time those who are being sanctified.
- 1 John 2:2 He Himself is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world.