Numbers 28:26

26 'Also on 1the day of the first fruits, when you present a new grain offering to the LORD in your Feast of Weeks, you shall have a holy convocation; 2you shall do no * laborious 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 'After this manner you shall present daily, for seven days, the food of the offering by fire, of a soothing aroma to the LORD ; it shall be presented with its drink offering in addition to the continual burnt offering.
25 'On the seventh day you shall have a holy convocation; you shall do no laborious work.
26 'Also on the day of the first fruits, when you present a new grain offering to the LORD in your Feast of Weeks, you shall have a holy convocation; you shall do no laborious work.
27 'You shall offer a burnt offering for a soothing aroma to the LORD : two young bulls , one ram, seven male lambs one year old;
28 and their grain offering, fine flour mixed with oil: three-tenths of an ephah for each bull, two-tenths for the one ram,

Cross References 2

  • 1. Exodus 23:16; Exodus 34:22; Leviticus 23:15-21; Deuteronomy 16:9-12
  • 2. Numbers 28:18
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