Numbers 28:18

18 On the first day there shall be a holy convocation: you shall do no laborious 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 LORD's passover.

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

18 On the first day there shall be a holy convocation: you shall do no laborious work,

19 but 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 also their cereal offering of fine flour mixed with oil; three tenths of an ephah shall you offer for a bull, and two tenths for a ram;