Numbers 28:18
Good News Translation
On the first day of the festival you are to gather for worship, and no work is to be done.

New Revised Standard Version
On the first day there shall be a holy convocation. You shall not work at your occupations.

Contemporary English Version
On the first day of this festival, you must rest from your work and come together for worship.

New American Bible
On the first day you will declare a holy day, and you shall do no heavy work.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the first day of them shall be venerable and holy: you shall not do any servile work therein.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And the first day of them shall be venerable and holy: you shall not do any servile work therein.

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Ezekiel 45:21-25 In the first month, the fourteenth day of the month, you shall observe the solemnity of the pasch: seven days unleavened bread shall be eaten. . . .

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Numbers 28:31 You shall offer them all without blemish with their libations.

Numbers 29:8 And you shall offer a holocaust to the Lord for a most sweet odour, one calf of the herd, one ram, and seven lambs of a year old, without blemish:

Leviticus 22:20 If it have a blemish you shall not offer it: neither shall it be acceptable.

Deuteronomy 15:21 But if it have a blemish, or be lame, or blind, or in any part disfigured or feeble, it shall not be sacrificed to the Lord thy God.

Malachi 1:13,14 And you have said: Behold of our labour, and you puffed it away, saith the Lord of hosts, and you brought in of rapine the lame, and the sick, and brought in an offering: shall I accept it at your hands, saith the Lord? . . .

1 Peter 1:19 But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb unspotted and undefiled

Context
The Passover
17And on the fifteenth day the solemn feast: seven days shall they eat unleavened bread. 18And the first day of them shall be venerable and holy: you shall not do any servile work therein.19And you shall offer a burnt sacrifice a holocaust to the Lord, two calves of the herd, one ram, seven lambs of a year old, without blemish:…
Cross References
Exodus 12:16
The first day shall be holy and solemn, and the seventh day shall be kept with the like solemnity: you shall do no work in them, except those things that belong to eating.

Leviticus 23:7
The first day shall be most solemn unto you, and holy: you shall do no servile work therein.

Numbers 28:25
The seventh day also shall be most solemn and holy unto you, you shall do no servile work therein.

Numbers 28:26
The day also of firstfruits, when after the weeks are accomplished, you shall offer new fruits to the Lord, shall be venerable and holy: you shall do no servile work therein.

Numbers 28:17
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