Numbers 28:18

18 On the first day there shall be a holy convocation. You shall not work at your occupations.

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 there shall be a passover offering to the Lord.

17 And on the fifteenth day of this month is a festival; seven days shall unleavened bread be eaten.

18 On the first day there shall be a holy convocation. You shall not work at your occupations.

19 You shall offer an offering by fire, a burnt offering to the Lord: two young bulls, one ram, and seven male lambs a year old; see that they are without blemish.

20 Their grain offering shall be of choice flour mixed with oil: three-tenths of an ephah shall you offer for a bull, and two-tenths for a ram;