Numbers 28:18

18 The first day of the festival will be an official day for holy assembly, and no ordinary work may be done on that day.

Numbers 28:18 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 28:18

In the first day shall be an holy convocation
The first of the seven days, which was kept in a very religious manner:

ye shall do no manner of servile work therein;
except by preparing food to eat; see ( Exodus 12:16 ) .

Numbers 28:18 In-Context

16 “On the fourteenth day of the first month, you must celebrate the LORD ’s Passover.

17 On the following day—the fifteenth day of the month—a joyous, seven-day festival will begin, but no bread made with yeast may be eaten.

18 The first day of the festival will be an official day for holy assembly, and no ordinary work may be done on that day.

19 As a special gift you must present a burnt offering to the LORD —two young bulls, one ram, and seven one-year-old male lambs, all with no defects.

20 These will be accompanied by grain offerings of choice flour moistened with olive oil—six quarts with each bull, four quarts with the ram,