Deuteronomy 16:8

Bible in Basic English (1941)

For six days let your food be unleavened bread; and on the seventh day there is to be a holy meeting to the Lord your God; no work is to be done.

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Referenced Verses

  • Lev 23:36 : 36 Every day for seven days give an offering made by fire to the Lord; and on the eighth day there is to be a holy meeting, when you are to give an offering made by fire to the Lord; this is a special holy day: you may do no field-work on that day.
  • Num 28:17-19 : 17 On the fifteenth day of this month there is to be a feast; for seven days let your food be unleavened cakes. 18 On the first day there is to be a holy meeting: you may do no sort of field-work: 19 And you are to give an offering made by fire, a burned offering to the Lord; two oxen, one male sheep, and seven he-lambs of the first year, without any mark:
  • Exod 12:15-16 : 15 For seven days let your food be unleavened bread; from the first day no leaven is to be seen in your houses: whoever takes bread with leaven in it, from the first till the seventh day, will be cut off from Israel. 16 And on the first day there is to be a holy meeting and on the seventh day a holy meeting; no sort of work may be done on those days but only to make ready what is necessary for everyone's food.
  • Exod 13:6-8 : 6 For seven days let your food be unleavened cakes; and on the seventh day there is to be a feast to the Lord. 7 Unleavened cakes are to be your food through all the seven days; let no leavened bread be seen among you, or any leaven, in any part of your land. 8 And you will say to your son in that day, It is because of what the Lord did for me when I came out of Egypt.
  • Lev 23:6-8 : 6 And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread; for seven days let your food be unleavened bread. 7 On the first day you will have a holy meeting; you may do no sort of field-work. 8 And every day for seven days you will give a burned offering to the Lord; and on the seventh day there will be a holy meeting; you may do no field-work.
  • 2 Chr 7:9 : 9 And on the eighth day they had a holy meeting; the offerings for making the altar holy went on for seven days, and the feast for seven days.
  • Neh 8:18 : 18 And day by day, from the first day till the last, he was reading from the book of the law of God. And they kept the feast for seven days: and on the eighth day there was a holy meeting, as it is ordered in the law.
  • Joel 1:14 : 14 Let a time be fixed for going without food, have a holy meeting, let the old men, even all the people of the land, come together to the house of the Lord your God, crying out to the Lord.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Exod 13:6-7
    2 verses
    88%

    6 For seven days let your food be unleavened cakes; and on the seventh day there is to be a feast to the Lord.

    7 Unleavened cakes are to be your food through all the seven days; let no leavened bread be seen among you, or any leaven, in any part of your land.

  • Exod 12:15-16
    2 verses
    87%

    15 For seven days let your food be unleavened bread; from the first day no leaven is to be seen in your houses: whoever takes bread with leaven in it, from the first till the seventh day, will be cut off from Israel.

    16 And on the first day there is to be a holy meeting and on the seventh day a holy meeting; no sort of work may be done on those days but only to make ready what is necessary for everyone's food.

  • Lev 23:6-9
    4 verses
    84%

    6 And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread; for seven days let your food be unleavened bread.

    7 On the first day you will have a holy meeting; you may do no sort of field-work.

    8 And every day for seven days you will give a burned offering to the Lord; and on the seventh day there will be a holy meeting; you may do no field-work.

    9 And the Lord said to Moses,

  • Lev 23:35-36
    2 verses
    84%

    35 On the first day there will be a holy meeting: do no field-work.

    36 Every day for seven days give an offering made by fire to the Lord; and on the eighth day there is to be a holy meeting, when you are to give an offering made by fire to the Lord; this is a special holy day: you may do no field-work on that day.

  • Lev 23:3
    83%

    3 On six days work may be done; but the seventh day is a special day of rest, a time for worship; you may do no sort of work: it is a Sabbath to the Lord wherever you may be living.

  • Num 28:25-26
    2 verses
    83%

    25 Then on the seventh day there will be a holy meeting; you may do no field-work.

    26 And at the time of the first-fruits, when you give an offering of new meal to the Lord at your feast of weeks, there is to be a holy meeting: you may do no field-work:

  • Num 29:35
    82%

    35 On the eighth day let there be a holy meeting: you may do no field-work;

  • Num 28:17-18
    2 verses
    82%

    17 On the fifteenth day of this month there is to be a feast; for seven days let your food be unleavened cakes.

    18 On the first day there is to be a holy meeting: you may do no sort of field-work:

  • Exod 16:26-27
    2 verses
    82%

    26 For six days you will get it, but on the seventh day, the Sabbath, there will not be any.

    27 But still on the seventh day some of the people went out to get it, and there was not any.

  • Deut 16:3-4
    2 verses
    81%

    3 Take no leavened bread with it; for seven days let your food be unleavened bread, that is, the bread of sorrow; for you came out of the land of Egypt quickly: so the memory of that day, when you came out of the land of Egypt, will be with you all your life.

    4 For seven days let no leaven be used through all your land; and nothing of the flesh which is put to death in the evening of the first day is to be kept through the night till morning.

  • Exod 20:8-10
    3 verses
    81%

    8 Keep in memory the Sabbath and let it be a holy day.

    9 On six days do all your work:

    10 But the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God; on that day you are to do no work, you or your son or your daughter, your man-servant or your woman-servant, your cattle or the man from a strange country who is living among you:

  • Exod 34:21-22
    2 verses
    80%

    21 Six days let work be done, but on the seventh day take your rest: at ploughing time and at the grain-cutting you are to have a day for rest.

    22 And you are to keep the feast of weeks when you get in the first-fruits of the grain, and the feast at the turn of the year when you take in the produce of your fields.

  • Exod 16:29-30
    2 verses
    79%

    29 See, because the Lord has given you the Sabbath, he gives you on the sixth day bread enough for two days; let every man keep where he is; let no man go out of his place on the seventh day.

    30 So the people took their rest on the seventh day.

  • Deut 5:13-14
    2 verses
    79%

    13 On six days do all your work:

    14 But the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God; on that day do no work, you or your son or your daughter, or your man-servant or your woman-servant, or your ox or your ass or any of your cattle, or the man from a strange country who is living among you; so that your man-servant and your woman-servant may have rest as well as you.

  • Deut 16:15
    79%

    15 Keep the feast to the Lord your God for seven days, in the place marked out by the Lord: because the blessing of the Lord your God will be on all the produce of your land and all the work of your hands, and you will have nothing but joy.

  • Exod 23:15
    79%

    15 You are to keep the feast of unleavened bread; for seven days let your bread be without leaven, as I gave you orders, at the regular time in the month Abib (for in it you came out of Egypt); and let no one come before me without an offering:

  • Deut 16:9
    79%

    9 Let seven weeks be numbered from the first day when the grain is cut.

  • Lev 23:21
    78%

    21 And on the same day, let it be given out that there will be a holy meeting for you: you may do no field-work on that day: it is a rule for ever through all your generations wherever you are living.

  • Exod 35:2
    78%

    2 Six days let work be done, but the seventh day is to be a holy day to you, a Sabbath of rest to the Lord; whoever does any work on that day is to be put to death.

  • Num 29:12
    77%

    12 And on the fifteenth day of the seventh month let there be a holy meeting; do no field-work, and keep a feast to the Lord for seven days;

  • Exod 31:15
    77%

    15 Six days may work be done, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of complete rest, holy to the Lord; whoever does any work on the Sabbath day is to be put to death.

  • Exod 12:18-20
    3 verses
    77%

    18 In the first month, from the evening of the fourteenth day, let your food be unleavened bread till the evening of the twenty-first day of the month.

    19 For seven days no leaven is to be seen in your houses: for whoever takes bread which is leavened will be cut off from the people of Israel, if he is from another country or if he is an Israelite by birth.

    20 Take nothing which has leaven in it; wherever you are living let your food be unleavened cakes.

  • Lev 23:39
    77%

    39 But on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have got in all the fruits of the land, you will keep the feast of the Lord for seven days: the first day will be a Sabbath, and the eighth day the same.

  • Lev 23:28
    76%

    28 And on that day you may do no sort of work, for it is a day of taking away sin, to make you clean before the Lord your God.

  • Exod 34:18
    76%

    18 Keep the feast of unleavened bread; for seven days your food is to be bread without leaven, as I gave you orders, at the regular time in the month Abib; for in that month you came out of Egypt.

  • Lev 23:25
    76%

    25 Do no field-work and give to the Lord an offering made by fire.

  • Ezek 45:21
    76%

    21 In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, you are to have the Passover, a feast of seven days; unleavened bread is to be your food.

  • Lev 23:15
    75%

    15 And let seven full weeks be numbered from the day after the Sabbath, the day when you give the grain for the wave offering;

  • Exod 16:23
    75%

    23 And he said, This is what the Lord has said, Tomorrow is a day of rest, a holy Sabbath to the Lord: what has to be cooked may be cooked; and what is over, put on one side to be kept till the morning.

  • Deut 16:7
    75%

    7 It is to be cooked and taken as food in the place marked out by the Lord: and in the morning you are to go back to your tents.

  • Deut 16:13
    75%

    13 You are to keep the feast of tents for seven days after you have got in all your grain and made your wine:

  • Num 29:7
    75%

    7 And on the tenth day of this seventh month there will be a holy meeting; keep yourselves from pleasure, and do no sort of work;