Numbers 28:26

Offerings for the Festival of Weeks

26 " 'And on the day of firstfruits, when you are presenting a new offering for Yahweh during your Festival of Weeks, you will have a holy convocation; {you will not do any regular work}.

Numbers 28:26 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 28:26

Also in the day of the firstfruits
When the firstfruits of the wheat harvest were brought unto the Lord, which was the day of Pentecost, fifty days from the sheaf of the wave offering being brought:

when ye bring a new meat offering unto the Lord;
that is, a meat offering made of the new corn, which were two wave loaves of two tenth deals of fine flour, baked with leaven, ( Leviticus 23:15-17 )

after your weeks be out;
the seven weeks from the passover to Pentecost, even seven complete sabbaths or weeks, ( Leviticus 23:15 )

ye shall have an holy convocation, ye shall do no servile work;
see ( Leviticus 23:21 ) .

Numbers 28:26 In-Context

24 Like this you will offer daily, for seven days, [the] food of the offering made by fire, a fragrance of appeasement for Yahweh; it will be offered in addition to the continual burnt offering and its libation.

25 On the seventh day you will have a holy convocation; {you will not do any regular work}.

26 " 'And on the day of firstfruits, when you are presenting a new offering for Yahweh during your Festival of Weeks, you will have a holy convocation; {you will not do any regular work}.

27 You will present a burnt offering for a fragrance of appeasement for Yahweh: two bulls, one ram, seven male lambs {in their first year};

28 and their grain offering will be finely milled flour mixed with oil: three-tenths for each bull, two-tenths for one ram,

Footnotes

• [a]. Literally "you will not do work of labor"