Leviticus 23:36

For seven days you are to present a food offering to the LORD. On the eighth day you are to hold a sacred assembly and present a food offering to the LORD. It is a solemn assembly; you must not do any regular work.

Berean Standard Bible

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Study note

Setting — Yahweh instructs Moses to relay to the Israelites the concluding regulations for the autumn festival cycle. The directive marks the transition from the seven-day Feast of Tabernacles to the final day of observance.

The words — שִׁבְעַ֣ת (shiv.'At) = seven and מִקְרָא־ (mik.ra'-) = convocation. These terms anchor the temporal structure of the festival and designate the gathering as a divinely appointed assembly.

The thread — The pattern of consecutive sacred days and work cessation appears in Numbers 29:12, while the prolonged observance echoes Nehemiah 8:18 and the festival's climax is referenced in John 7:37. These passages trace the same liturgical framework from wilderness legislation through post-exilic restoration to New Testament fulfillment.

Why it lands — The text commands strict cessation of labor and the presentation of offerings on the eighth day. It requires the reader to recognize the boundary between holy observance and ordinary work, and to prepare for the concluding assembly.

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The Hebrew words

King James Version

Seven days ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord: on the eighth day shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord: it is a solemn assembly; and ye shall do no servile work therein.

Cross-references

Nehemiah 8:18 Day after day, from the first day to the last, Ezra read from the Book of the Law of God. The Israelites kept the feast for seven days, and on the eighth day they held an assembly, according to the ordinance.
John 7:37 On the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood up and called out in a loud voice, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink.
Numbers 29:12 On the fifteenth day of the seventh month, you are to hold a sacred assembly; you must not do any regular work, and you shall observe a feast to the LORD for seven days.
Deuteronomy 16:8 For six days you must eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day you shall hold a solemn assembly to the LORD your God, and you must not do any work.
2 Chronicles 7:8 So at that time Solomon and all Israel with him—a very great assembly of people from Lebo-hamath to the Brook of Egypt—kept the feast for seven days.
Joel 1:14 Consecrate a fast; proclaim a solemn assembly! Gather the elders and all the residents of the land to the house of the LORD your God, and cry out to the LORD.
Joel 2:15 Blow the ram’s horn in Zion, consecrate a fast, proclaim a sacred assembly.