Numbers 28:26

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.

Berean Standard Bible

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Study note

Setting — God addresses the Israelites through Moses, specifying the ritual requirements for the Feast of Weeks within the broader calendar of appointed offerings.

The words — הַבְּכֻרִים (ha.beku.rim) = the first-fruits; מִקְרָא־ (mik.ra'-) = a convocation of.

The thread — The passage connects this observance to the Feast of Weeks and firstfruits, paralleling the festival calendar detailed in Leviticus 23:10 and the harvest feasts noted in Exodus 34:22.

Why it lands — The text commands a cessation of ordinary labor and mandates a gathered assembly when bringing the new grain offering, establishing a fixed boundary between sacred time and daily routine.

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The Hebrew words

וּבְי֣וֹםu./ve./Yomand/ on/ [the] day of הַבִּכּוּרִ֗יםha./bi.ku.Rimthe/ first-fruits בְּהַקְרִ֨יבְכֶ֜םbe./hak.Ri.ve./Khemwhen/ bring near/ you מִנְחָ֤הmin.Chaha grain offering חֲדָשָׁה֙cha.da.Shahnew לַֽיהוָ֔הla./Yah.wehto/ Yahweh בְּשָׁבֻעֹ֖תֵיכֶ֑םbe./sha.vu.'O.tei./Khemat/ weeks/ your מִֽקְרָא־mik.ra'-a convocation of קֹ֙דֶשׁ֙ko.deshholiness יִהְיֶ֣הyih.Yehit will beלָכֶ֔םla./Khemto <the>/ youכָּל־kol-any מְלֶ֥אכֶתme.Le.khetwork of עֲבֹדָ֖ה'a.vo.Dahservitude לֹ֥אlo'not תַעֲשֽׂוּ׃ta.'a.Suyou will do

King James Version

Also in the day of the firstfruits, when ye bring a new meat offering unto the Lord, after your weeks be out, ye shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work:

Cross-references

Exodus 23:16 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.
Exodus 34:22 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.
Leviticus 23:10 “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.
Leviticus 23:15 From the day after the Sabbath, the day you brought the sheaf of the wave offering, you are to count off seven full weeks.
Deuteronomy 16:9 You are to count off seven weeks from the time you first put the sickle to the standing grain.
1 Corinthians 15:20 But Christ has indeed been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.
Numbers 28:18 On the first day there is to be a sacred assembly; you must not do any regular work.
Acts 2:1 When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place.
James 1:18 He chose to give us birth through the word of truth, that we would be a kind of firstfruits of His creation.