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What does Leviticus 23:8 mean?

"But you shall offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh seven days. In the seventh day is a holy convocation: you shall do no regular work.’”"

— Leviticus 23:8 (World English Bible)

Surrounding context

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In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month in the evening, is Yahweh’s Passover.

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On the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread to Yahweh. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread.

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In the first day you shall have a holy convocation. You shall do no regular work.

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But you shall offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh seven days. In the seventh day is a holy convocation: you shall do no regular work.’”

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Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

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“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 harvest, then you shall bring the sheaf of the first fruits of your harvest to the priest:

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and he shall wave the sheaf before Yahweh, to be accepted for you. On the next day after the Sabbath the priest shall wave it.

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