Numbers 28:26

BSB · Public Domain (CC0)

“On the day of firstfruits, when you present an offering of new grain to the LORD during the Feast of Weeks, you are to hold a sacred assembly; you must not do any regular work.”

What this verse means

A short, plain-language explanation of Numbers 28:26 goes here — the kind of answer a reader (or an AI assistant) can quote in one breath. Original meaning coming soon.

Compare translations
BSBPD

“On the day of firstfruits, when you present an offering of new grain to the LORD during the Feast of Weeks, you are to hold a sacred assembly; you must not do any regular work.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“Also in the day of the firstfruits, when ye bring a new meat offering unto the Lord, after your weeks be out, ye shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work:”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“Also in the day of the first-fruits, when ye offer a new meal-offering unto Jehovah in your feast of weeks, ye shall have a holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work;”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“`And in the day of the first-fruits, in your bringing near a new present to Jehovah, in your weeks, a holy convocation ye have; ye do no servile work;”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
Open the full comparison
Cross references

Other passages that echo Numbers 28:26 — 13 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Exodus 12:16On the first day you are to hold a sacred assembly, and another on the seventh day. You must not do any work on those days, except to prepare the meals—that is all you may do.
  2. Exodus 23:16You are also to keep the Feast of Harvest with the firstfruits of the produce from what you sow in the field. And keep the Feast of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather your produce from the field.
  3. Exodus 34:22And you are to celebrate the Feast of Weeks with the firstfruits of the wheat harvest, and the Feast of Ingathering at the turn of the year.
  4. Leviticus 23:8For seven days you are to present an offering made by fire to the LORD. On the seventh day there shall be a sacred assembly; you must not do any regular work.’”
  5. Leviticus 23:10“Speak to the Israelites and say, ‘When you enter the land that I am giving you and you reap its harvest, you are to bring to the priest a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest.
  6. Leviticus 23:15From the day after the Sabbath, the day you brought the sheaf of the wave offering, you are to count off seven full weeks.
  7. Leviticus 23:16You shall count off fifty days until the day after the seventh Sabbath, and then present an offering of new grain to the LORD.
  8. Numbers 28:18On the first day there is to be a sacred assembly; you must not do any regular work.
  9. Deuteronomy 16:9You are to count off seven weeks from the time you first put the sickle to the standing grain.
  10. Deuteronomy 16:10And you shall celebrate the Feast of Weeks to the LORD your God with a freewill offering that you give in proportion to how the LORD your God has blessed you,
  11. Acts 2:1When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place.
  12. 1 Corinthians 15:20But Christ has indeed been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.
  13. James 1:18He chose to give us birth through the word of truth, that we would be a kind of firstfruits of His creation.

Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

Keep exploring