Numbers 28:26

Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

On the day of firstfruits, when you bring a new grain offering to the LORD during the Feast of Weeks, hold a sacred assembly. You are not to do any regular 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

Other Translations

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  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:

• KJV1611 – Modern English

  Also on the day of the firstfruits, when you bring a new grain offering to the LORD, after your weeks are completed, you shall have a holy assembly; you shall do no servile work:

• King James Version 1611 (Original)

  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:

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  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;

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  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:

• Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

  And the daye of youre first frutes when ye brynge a new meatofferynge vnto the Lorde in youre wekes shalbe an holy feast vnto you:

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  And the daye of the fyrst frutes (wha ye offre the meatofferynge of the moneth vnto ye LORDE in youre wekes) shal be an holy couocacion also:

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  Also in the day of your first fruits, when ye bring a newe meate offring vnto the Lorde, according to your weekes ye shal haue an holy conuocation, & ye shal do no seruile worke in it:

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  Also in the day of your first fruites, when ye bryng a newe meate offeryng vnto the Lorde accordyng to your weekes, ye shall haue an holy couocation, and ye shal do no seruile worke in it.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  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:

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  Also in the day of the first fruits, when you offer a new meal-offering to Yahweh in your [feast of] weeks, you shall have a holy convocation; you shall do no servile work;

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  `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;

• 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;

• 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;

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  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:

• World English Bible (2000)

  "'Also in the day of the first fruits, when you offer a new meal offering to Yahweh in your [feast of] weeks, you shall have a holy convocation; you shall do no servile work;

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  Firstfruits“‘Also, on the day of the first fruits, when you bring a new grain offering to the LORD during your Feast of Weeks, you are to have a holy assembly. You must do no ordinary work.

Referenced Verses

• Exod 23:16 : 16 Celebrate the Feast of Harvest with the firstfruits of your work, of what you sow in the field, and the Feast of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather in your produce from the field.
• Exod 34:22 : 22 Observe the Feast of Weeks with the firstfruits of the wheat harvest, and the Feast of Ingathering at the turn of the year.
• Lev 23:10 : 10 Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When you enter the land that I am giving you and you harvest its crops, you must bring the first sheaf of your harvest to the priest.
• Lev 23:15-21 : 15 You shall count for yourselves from the day after the Sabbath, from the day you brought the sheaf of the wave offering, seven full weeks shall be counted. 16 Until the day after the seventh Sabbath, you shall count fifty days; then you shall present a new grain offering to the Lord. 17 Bring from your dwellings two loaves of bread as a wave offering, made from two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour and baked with leaven, as firstfruits to the Lord. 18 Along with the bread, present seven unblemished lambs a year old, one young bull, and two rams as burnt offerings to the Lord, along with their grain offerings and drink offerings—an offering made by fire, a pleasing aroma to the Lord. 19 You shall also prepare one male goat as a sin offering and two year-old male lambs as a fellowship offering. 20 The priest shall wave them with the bread of the firstfruits as a wave offering before the Lord, along with the two lambs; they are holy to the Lord and assigned to the priest. 21 On that same day you shall proclaim a sacred assembly, and you must not do any regular work. This shall be a perpetual statute for all your generations in all your dwellings.
• Deut 16:9-9 : 9 Count seven weeks from the time you begin to harvest the grain with the sickle. 10 Celebrate the Feast of Weeks to the Lord your God by giving a freewill offering in proportion to the blessings the Lord your God has given you. 11 Rejoice before the Lord your God—you, your son and daughter, your male and female servants, the Levite in your towns, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow living among you, in the place the Lord your God chooses to establish His name.
• Acts 2:1-9 : 1 When the day of Pentecost had fully come, they were all together in one place. 2 Suddenly, there came a sound from heaven like a rushing mighty wind, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting. 3 They saw what seemed to be tongues of fire that separated and came to rest on each of them. 4 They were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in different languages as the Spirit enabled them to speak. 5 Now there were devout Jews residing in Jerusalem, from every nation under heaven. 6 When they heard this sound, a crowd came together in bewilderment because each one heard them speaking in their own language. 7 They were astonished and amazed, saying, 'Aren't all these who are speaking Galileans?' 8 How is it that each of us hears them in our native language where we were born? 9 Parthians, Medes, Elamites, residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, 10 Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya near Cyrene, visitors from Rome, 11 both Jews and proselytes, Cretans and Arabs—we hear them declaring the wonders of God in our own tongues! 12 They were all amazed and perplexed, asking one another, 'What does this mean?' 13 But others mocked and said, 'They are full of new wine.'
• 1 Cor 15:20 : 20 But now Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.
• Jas 1:18 : 18 By His own will He brought us forth by the word of truth, so that we might be a kind of firstfruits of His creation.
• Num 28:18 : 18 The first day shall be a sacred assembly. You are not to do any regular work.