Numbers 28:26

American Standard Version (1901)

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;

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וּבְי֣וֹם הַבִּכּוּרִ֗ים בְּהַקְרִ֨יבְכֶ֜ם מִנְחָ֤ה חֲדָשָׁה֙ לַֽיהוָ֔ה בְּשָׁבֻעֹ֖תֵיכֶ֑ם מִֽקְרָא־קֹ֙דֶשׁ֙ יִהְיֶ֣ה לָכֶ֔ם כָּל־מְלֶ֥אכֶת עֲבֹדָ֖ה לֹ֥א תַעֲשֽׂוּ׃

Transliteration

And on day of the ûbəyôm habbikkûrîm, when bəhaqrîbəkem minḥâ ḥădāšâ to YHWH in your bəšābûʿōtêkem, miqrāʾ-qōdeš yihyeh to you; any kol-məleʾket ʿăbōdâ not lōʾ taʿăśû

Grammar Details

• *ûbəyôm*: conjunction + preposition + noun, masculine singular construct - and on day of
• *habbikkûrîm*: definite article + noun, masculine plural - the firstfruits
• *bəhaqrîbəkem*: preposition + Hiphil infinitive construct + 2nd masculine plural suffix - when you offer
• *minḥâ*: noun, feminine singular - grain offering
• *ḥădāšâ*: adjective, feminine singular - new
• *YHWH*: proper noun, divine name - Yahweh/LORD
• *bəšābûʿōtêkem*: preposition + noun, masculine plural + 2nd masculine plural suffix - in your weeks/festivals
• *miqrāʾ*: noun, masculine singular construct - convocation of
• *qōdeš*: noun, masculine singular - holiness
• *yihyeh*: Qal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - it shall be
• *kol*: noun, masculine singular construct - all of/any
• *məleʾket*: noun, feminine singular construct - work of
• *ʿăbōdâ*: noun, feminine singular - labor/service
• *lōʾ*: negative particle - not
• *taʿăśû*: Qal imperfect, 2nd masculine plural - you shall do

Word Meanings

• *ûbəyôm habbikkûrîm*: and on the day of firstfruits/day of first produce
• *bəhaqrîbəkem*: when you offer/present/bring near
• *minḥâ ḥădāšâ*: new grain offering/new meal offering
• *bəšābûʿōtêkem*: in your Feast of Weeks/during your Festival of Weeks
• *miqrāʾ-qōdeš*: holy convocation/sacred assembly
• *kol-məleʾket ʿăbōdâ*: any laborious work/servile work
• *lōʾ taʿăśû*: you shall not do/perform

Referenced Verses

• Exod 23:16 : 16 and the feast of harvest, the first-fruits of thy labors, which thou sowest in the field: and the feast of ingathering, at the end of the year, when thou gatherest in thy labors out of the field.
• Exod 34:22 : 22 And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, [even] of the first-fruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the year's end.
• Lev 23:10 : 10 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye are come into the land which I give unto you, and shall reap the harvest thereof, then ye shall bring the sheaf of the first-fruits of your harvest unto the priest:
• Lev 23:15-21 : 15 And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the sabbath, from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave-offering; seven sabbaths shall there be complete: 16 even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall offer a new meal-offering unto Jehovah. 17 Ye shall bring out of your habitations two wave-loaves of two tenth parts [of an ephah] : they shall be of fine flour, they shall be baken with leaven, for first-fruits unto Jehovah. 18 And ye shall present with the bread seven lambs without blemish a year old, and one young bullock, and two rams: they shall be a burnt-offering unto Jehovah, with their meal-offering, and their drink-offerings, even an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor unto Jehovah. 19 And ye shall offer one he-goat for a sin-offering, and two he-lambs a year old for a sacrifice of peace-offerings. 20 And the priest shall wave them with the bread of the first-fruits for a wave-offering before Jehovah, with the two lambs: they shall be holy to Jehovah for the priest. 21 And ye shall make proclamation on the selfsame day; there shall be a holy convocation unto you; ye shall do no servile work: it is a statute for ever in all your dwellings throughout your generations.
• Deut 16:9-9 : 9 Seven weeks shalt thou number unto thee: from the time thou beginnest to put the sickle to the standing grain shalt thou begin to number seven weeks. 10 And thou shalt keep the feast of weeks unto Jehovah thy God with a tribute of a freewill-offering of thy hand, which thou shalt give, according as Jehovah thy God blesseth thee: 11 and thou shalt rejoice before Jehovah thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy man-servant, and thy maid-servant, and the Levite that is within thy gates, and the sojourner, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are in the midst of thee, in the place which Jehovah thy God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there.
• Acts 2:1-9 : 1 And when the day of Pentecost was now come, they were all together in one place. 2 And suddenly there came from heaven a sound as of the rushing of a mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. 3 And there appeared unto them tongues parting asunder, like as of fire; and it sat upon each one of them. 4 And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance. 5 Now there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men, from every nation under heaven. 6 And when this sound was heard, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man heard them speaking in his own language. 7 And they were all amazed and marvelled, saying, Behold, are not all these that speak Galilaeans? 8 And how hear we, every man in our own language wherein we were born? 9 Parthians and Medes and Elamites, and the dwellers in Mesopotamia, in Judaea and Cappadocia, in Pontus and Asia, 10 in Phrygia and Pamphylia, in Egypt and the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and sojourners from Rome, both Jews and proselytes, 11 Cretans and Arabians, we hear them speaking in our tongues the mighty works of God. 12 And they were all amazed, and were perplexed, saying one to another, What meaneth this? 13 But others mocking said, They are filled with new wine.
• 1 Cor 15:20 : 20 But now hath Christ been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of them that are asleep.
• Jas 1:18 : 18 Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
• Num 28:18 : 18 In the first day shall be a holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work;