Numbers 28:26

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:

📖 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 firstfruits of thy labours, which thou hast sown in the field: and the feast of ingathering, [which is] in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labours out of the field.
• Exod 34:22 : 22 And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, of the firstfruits 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 be come into the land which I give unto you, and shall reap the harvest thereof, then ye shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits 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 be complete: 16 Even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall offer a new meat offering unto the LORD. 17 Ye shall bring out of your habitations two wave loaves of two tenth deals: they shall be of fine flour; they shall be baken with leaven; [they are] the firstfruits unto the LORD. 18 And ye shall offer with the bread seven lambs without blemish of the first year, and one young bullock, and two rams: they shall be [for] a burnt offering unto the LORD, with their meat offering, and their drink offerings, [even] an offering made by fire, of sweet savour unto the LORD. 19 Then ye shall sacrifice one kid of the goats for a sin offering, and two lambs of the first year for a sacrifice of peace offerings. 20 And the priest shall wave them with the bread of the firstfruits [for] a wave offering before the LORD, with the two lambs: they shall be holy to the LORD for the priest. 21 And ye shall proclaim on the selfsame day, [that] it may be an holy convocation unto you: ye shall do no servile work [therein: it shall be] a statute for ever in all your dwellings throughout your generations.
• Deut 16:9-9 : 9 Seven weeks shalt thou number unto thee: begin to number the seven weeks from [such time as] thou beginnest [to put] the sickle to the corn. 10 And thou shalt keep the feast of weeks unto the LORD thy God with a tribute of a freewill offering of thine hand, which thou shalt give [unto the LORD thy God], according as the LORD thy God hath blessed thee: 11 And thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that [is] within thy gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that [are] among you, in the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen to place his name there.
• Acts 2:1-9 : 1 ¶ And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. 2 And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. 3 And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them. 4 And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance. 5 ¶ And there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men, out of every nation under heaven. 6 Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man heard them speak in his own language. 7 And they were all amazed and marvelled, saying one to another, Behold, are not all these which speak Galilaeans? 8 And how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born? 9 Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and the dwellers in Mesopotamia, and in Judaea, and Cappadocia, in Pontus, and Asia, 10 Phrygia, and Pamphylia, in Egypt, and in the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and strangers of Rome, Jews and proselytes, 11 Cretes and Arabians, we do hear them speak in our tongues the wonderful works of God. 12 And they were all amazed, and were in doubt, saying one to another, What meaneth this? 13 Others mocking said, These men are full of new wine.
• 1 Cor 15:20 : 20 ¶ But now is Christ risen from the dead, [and] become the firstfruits of them that slept.
• Jas 1:18 : 18 Of his own will begat he us with 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] an holy convocation; ye shall do no manner of servile work [therein]: