Numbers 28:26

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;

📖 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 first fruits of your labors, which you sow in the field: and the feast of harvest, at the end of the year, when you gather in your labors out of the field.
• Exod 34:22 : 22 You shall observe the feast of weeks with the first fruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of harvest at the year's end.
• Lev 23:10 : 10 "Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, 'When you have come into the land which I give to you, and shall reap its the harvest, then you shall bring the sheaf of the first fruits of your harvest to the priest:
• Lev 23:15-21 : 15 "'You shall count from the next day after the Sabbath, from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven Sabbaths shall be completed: 16 even to the next day after the seventh Sabbath you shall number fifty days; and you shall offer a new meal offering to Yahweh. 17 You shall bring out of your habitations two wave-loaves of two tenth parts of an ephah: they shall be of fine flour, they shall be baked with yeast, for first fruits to Yahweh. 18 You shall present with the bread seven lambs without blemish a year old, one young bull, and two rams. Yhey shall be a burnt offering to Yahweh, with their meal offering, and their drink offerings, even an offering made by fire, of a sweet aroma to Yahweh. 19 You shall offer one male goat for a sin offering, and two male lambs a year old for a sacrifice of peace offerings. 20 The priest shall wave them with the bread of the first fruits for a wave offering before Yahweh, with the two lambs. They shall be holy to Yahweh for the priest. 21 You shall make proclamation on the same day: there shall be a holy convocation to you; you shall do no regular work. This is a statute forever in all your dwellings throughout your generations.
• Deut 16:9-9 : 9 Seven weeks shall you number to you: from the time you begin to put the sickle to the standing grain shall you begin to number seven weeks. 10 You shall keep the feast of weeks to Yahweh your God with a tribute of a freewill-offering of your hand, which you shall give, according as Yahweh your God blesses you: 11 and you shall rejoice before Yahweh your God, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your man-servant, and your maid-servant, and the Levite who is within your gates, and the foreigner, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are in the midst of you, in the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there.
• Acts 2:1-9 : 1 Now when the day of Pentecost had come, they were all with one accord in one place. 2 Suddenly there came from the sky a sound like the rushing of a mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. 3 Tongues like fire appeared and were distributed to them, and one sat on each of them. 4 They were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other languages, as the Spirit gave them the ability to speak. 5 Now there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men, from every nation under the sky. 6 When this sound was heard, the multitude came together, and were bewildered, because everyone heard them speaking in his own language. 7 They were all amazed and marveled, saying to one another, "Behold, aren't all these who speak Galileans? 8 How do we hear, everyone in our own native language? 9 Parthians, Medes, Elamites, and people from Mesopotamia, Judea, Cappadocia, Pontus, Asia, 10 Phrygia, Pamphylia, Egypt, the parts of Libya around Cyrene, visitors from Rome, both Jews and proselytes, 11 Cretans and Arabians: we hear them speaking in our languages the mighty works of God!" 12 They were all amazed, and were perplexed, saying one to another, "What does this mean?" 13 Others, mocking, said, "They are filled with new wine."
• 1 Cor 15:20 : 20 But now Christ has been raised from the dead. He became the first fruits of those who are asleep.
• Jas 1:18 : 18 Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.
• Num 28:18 : 18 In the first day shall be a holy convocation: you shall do no servile work;