Exodus 12:16

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.

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  • Lev 23:7-8 : 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.
  • Num 28:18 : 18 On the first day there is to be a holy meeting: you may do no sort of field-work:
  • Num 28:25 : 25 Then on the seventh day there will be a holy meeting; you may do no field-work.
  • Num 29:1 : 1 In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, let there be a holy meeting; on it you may do no field-work; let the day be marked by the blowing of horns;
  • Num 29:12 : 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;
  • Jer 17:21-22 : 21 This is what the Lord has said: See to yourselves, that you take up no weight on the Sabbath day, or take it in through the doors of Jerusalem; 22 And take no weight out of your houses on the Sabbath day, or do any work, but keep the Sabbath day holy, as I gave orders to your fathers;
  • Lev 23:21 : 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.
  • Lev 23:24-25 : 24 Say to the children of Israel, In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, let there be a special day of rest for you, a day of memory, marked by the blowing of horns, a meeting for worship. 25 Do no field-work and give to the Lord an offering made by fire.
  • Lev 23:27 : 27 The tenth day of this seventh month is the day for the taking away of sin; let it be a holy day of worship; you are to keep from pleasure, and give to the Lord an offering made by fire.
  • Lev 23:35 : 35 On the first day there will be a holy meeting: do no field-work.
  • Exod 16:5 : 5 And on the sixth day they are to make ready what they get in, and it will be twice as much as they get on the other days.
  • Exod 16:23 : 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.
  • Exod 16:29 : 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.
  • Exod 20:10 : 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 35:2-3 : 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. 3 No fire is to be lighted in any of your houses on the Sabbath day.
  • Lev 23:2-3 : 2 Say to the children of Israel, These are the fixed feasts of the Lord, which you will keep for holy meetings: these are my feasts. 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.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Lev 23:6-9
    4 verses
    88%

    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,

  • Num 28:16-18
    3 verses
    87%

    16 And in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, is the Lord's Passover.

    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:

  • Deut 16:8
    87%

    8 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.

  • Lev 23:35-37
    3 verses
    85%

    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.

    37 These are the fixed feasts of the Lord, to be kept by you as holy days of worship, for making an offering by fire to the Lord; a burned offering, a meal offering, an offering of beasts, and drink offerings; every one on its special day;

  • 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:

  • Lev 23:2-4
    3 verses
    83%

    2 Say to the children of Israel, These are the fixed feasts of the Lord, which you will keep for holy meetings: these are my feasts.

    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.

    4 These are the fixed feasts of the Lord, the holy days of worship which you will keep at their regular times.

  • Exod 12:14-15
    2 verses
    82%

    14 And this day is to be kept in your memories: you are to keep it as a feast to the Lord through all your generations, as an order for ever.

    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.

  • Num 29:12
    82%

    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;

  • Lev 23:21
    82%

    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 13:6-7
    2 verses
    81%

    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.

  • Num 29:35
    80%

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

  • Exod 12:17-20
    4 verses
    79%

    17 So keep the feast of unleavened bread; for on this very day I have taken your armies out of the land of Egypt: this day, then, is to be kept through all your generations by an order for ever.

    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.

  • Exod 16:25-26
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    78%

    25 And Moses said, Make your meal today of what you have, for this day is a Sabbath to the Lord: today you will not get any in the fields.

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

  • Num 29:7
    78%

    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;

  • Ezek 45:21
    77%

    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.

  • Deut 16:3-4
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    77%

    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.

  • 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.

  • Exod 16:29-30
    2 verses
    76%

    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.

  • 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.

  • Num 29:1
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    1 In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, let there be a holy meeting; on it you may do no field-work; let the day be marked by the blowing of horns;

  • Exod 34:21-22
    2 verses
    75%

    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.

  • Lev 23:32
    75%

    32 Let this be a Sabbath of special rest to you, and keep yourselves from all pleasure; on the ninth day of the month at nightfall from evening to evening, let this Sabbath be kept.

  • Exod 23:15
    75%

    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:

  • Exod 35:2
    75%

    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.

  • Lev 23:25-26
    2 verses
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    25 Do no field-work and give to the Lord an offering made by fire.

    26 And the Lord said to Moses,

  • Lev 23:15
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    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
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    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.

  • Lev 16:29
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    29 And let this be an order to you for ever: in the seventh month, on the tenth day, you are to keep yourselves from pleasure and do no sort of work, those who are Israelites by birth and those from other lands who are living among you:

  • Exod 31:15
    74%

    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.

  • Deut 16:15
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    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.