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Numbers 28:24-26
New Catholic Bible
Numbers 28:24-26
New Catholic Bible
24 This is the way that you will offer the food of the offering made by fire each day for seven days, a pleasing fragrance to the Lord. It is offered in addition to the regular burnt offerings and their drink offerings. 25 On the seventh day you will have a holy assembly; you are not to do any heavy labor.
26 Pentecost.[a]“ ‘On the day of the firstfruits,[b] when you bring a new cereal offering to the Lord for the Feast of Weeks, you are to have a holy assembly; you are not to do any heavy labor.
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- Numbers 28:26 Pentecost, which comes seven weeks after Passover, celebrates the harvest and commemorates God’s self-revelation on Sinai after the departure from Egypt (see Lev 23:15-21).
- Numbers 28:26 Day of the firstfruits: usually referred to as the Feast of Weeks.
