Numbers 28:26

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:

📖 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

• 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.

• 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:

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  Also in the day{H3117} of the first-fruits,{H1061} when ye offer{H7126} a new{H2319} meal-offering{H4503} unto Jehovah{H3068} in your [feast of] weeks,{H7620} ye shall have a holy{H6944} convocation;{H4744} ye shall do{H6213} no servile{H5656} work;{H4399}

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  Also in the day{H3117} of the firstfruits{H1061}, when ye bring{H7126}{(H8687)} a new{H2319} meat offering{H4503} unto the LORD{H3068}, after your weeks{H7620} be out, ye shall have an holy{H6944} convocation{H4744}; ye shall do{H6213}{(H8799)} no servile{H5656} work{H4399}:

• 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 and the Feast of Harvest, the firstfruits of your labors which you have sown in the field; and the Feast of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you have gathered in your labors from the field.
• Exod 34:22 : 22 And you shall 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 to the children of Israel and say to them, When you come into the land which I give you and shall reap its harvest, then you shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest to the priest.
• Lev 23:15-21 : 15 And you shall count for yourselves from the day after the sabbath, from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven sabbaths shall be complete. 16 Even to the day after the seventh sabbath shall you number fifty days; and you shall offer a new meat offering to the LORD. 17 You shall bring out of your dwellings two wave loaves of two-tenths of an ephah; they shall be made of fine flour; they shall be baked with leaven; they are the firstfruits to the LORD. 18 And you shall offer with the bread seven lambs without blemish of the first year, one young bull, and two rams; they shall be a burnt offering to the LORD, with their meat offering and their drink offerings, an offering made by fire, of sweet aroma to the LORD. 19 Then you 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 you shall proclaim on the same day that it may be a holy gathering to you; you shall do no servile work in it; it shall be a statute forever in all your dwellings throughout your generations.
• Deut 16:9-9 : 9 Seven weeks you shall number for yourself: begin to number the seven weeks from the time you begin to put the sickle to the grain. 10 And you shall keep the feast of weeks to the LORD your God with a tribute of a freewill offering from your hand, which you shall give to the LORD your God, according to how the LORD your God has blessed you: 11 And you shall rejoice before the LORD your God, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your manservant, and your maidservant, and the Levite that is within your gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are among you, in the place which the LORD your God has chosen to place His name there.
• 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 entire house where they were sitting. 3 And there appeared to them divided tongues as of fire, and one sat upon each of them. 4 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 in Jerusalem Jews, devout men, from every nation under heaven. 6 When this sound occurred, the multitude came together and were bewildered, because each one heard them speaking in his own language. 7 They were all amazed and marveled, saying to one another, 'Behold, are not all these who speak Galileans?' 8 How is it that we hear each in our own language in which we were born? 9 Parthians, Medes, Elamites, those dwelling in Mesopotamia, Judea, Cappadocia, Pontus, and Asia, 10 Phrygia, Pamphylia, Egypt, and the parts of Libya adjoining Cyrene, visitors from Rome, both Jews and proselytes, 11 Cretans and Arabs—we hear them speaking in our tongues the wonderful works of God. 12 They were all amazed and perplexed, saying to one another, 'What does this mean?' 13 Others mocking said, 'They are full of new wine.'
• 1 Cor 15:20 : 20 But now Christ is risen from the dead, and has become the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.
• Jas 1:18 : 18 Of His own will He brought us forth by the word of truth, that we might be a kind of firstfruits of His creatures.
• Num 28:18 : 18 On the first day shall be a holy assembly; you shall do no servile work therein: