Thematic Bible: The annual feasts, added rest days


Thematic Bible




Do not do any work that day. It is a special day for the payment for sins. It is a time when you pay compensation for wrongdoing and make peace with Jehovah your God.


Do none of your daily work. Gather for worship. Your descendants are to observe this regulation from generation to generation, no matter where they live.

There will be a holy assembly on the first day. Do not do any regular work.

Call a holy assembly on the fifteenth day of the seventh month. You must not do any regular work. Instead, celebrate a festival to Jehovah for seven days.

On the eighth day you must hold a religious assembly. Do no daily work.

Gather to worship on the first of these days. Do none of your daily work. Bring a sacrifice to Jehovah for seven days. On the seventh day there will be a holy assembly. Do not do any regular work.'

Present a food offering to Jehovah. Do not do your daily work.

I will destroy those who do any work on that day. Do not do any work! It is a long lasting law for generations to come wherever you live.

There will be a holy assemble on the first day. Do not do any regular work. Bring a sacrifice by fire to Jehovah for seven consecutive days. On the eighth day there will be a holy assembly. Bring Jehovah a sacrifice by fire. This is the last festival of the year. Do not do any regular work.

On the seventh day you must have a holy assembly. You must not do any regular work. During the Festival of Weeks, you must have a holy assembly. On that day you must not do any regular work. Bring Jehovah your new grain offering, the first produce harvested from your fields.