Numbers 28:18

18 On the first day [there will be] a holy convocation; {you will not do any regular work}.

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 [is] the Passover for Yahweh.

17 On the fifteenth day of this month [is] a religious feast, unleavened bread must be eaten for seven days.

18 On the first day [there will be] a holy convocation; {you will not do any regular work}.

19 You will present an offering by fire, a burnt offering for Yahweh: two bulls and one ram and seven male lambs {in their first year}; they will be for you without defect.

20 For their grain offering, you will offer finely milled flour mixed with oil: three-tenths for the bull and two-tenths for the ram.

Footnotes

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