Leviticus 23:3

The Weekly Sabbath

23:3 “‘Six days work may be done, but on the seventh day there must be a Sabbath of complete rest, ¹  a holy assembly. You must not do any work; it is a Sabbath to the Lord in all the places where you live.

Leviticus 23:8

23:8 You must present a gift to the Lord for seven days, and the seventh day is a holy assembly; you must not do any regular work.’”

Leviticus 23:27

23:27 “The ²  tenth day of this seventh month is the Day of Atonement. ³  It is to be a holy assembly for you, and you must humble yourselves ⁴  and present a gift to the Lord.

Leviticus 23:40-41

23:40 On the first day you must take for yourselves branches from majestic trees ⁵  – palm branches, branches of leafy trees, and willows of the brook – and you must rejoice before the Lord your God for seven days. 23:41 You must celebrate it as a pilgrim festival to the Lord for seven days in the year. This is a perpetual statute throughout your generations; ⁶  you must celebrate it in the seventh month.

Leviticus 25:47

25:47 “‘If a resident foreigner who is with you prospers ⁷  and your brother becomes impoverished with regard to him so that ⁸  he sells himself to a resident foreigner who is with you or to a member ⁹  of a foreigner’s family,

Leviticus 26:5

26:5 Threshing season will extend for you until the season for harvesting grapes, ¹⁰  and the season for harvesting grapes will extend until sowing season, so ¹¹  you will eat your bread until you are satisfied, ¹²  and you will live securely in your land.

[23:3]  ¹ tn This is a superlative expression, emphasizing the full and all inclusive rest of the Sabbath and certain festival times throughout the chapter (see B. A. Levine, Leviticus [JPSTC], 155). Cf. ASV “a sabbath of solemn rest.”

[23:27]  ² tn Heb “Surely the tenth day” or perhaps “Precisely the tenth day.” The Hebrew adverbial particle אַךְ (’akh) is left untranslated by most recent English versions; cf. however NASB “On exactly the tenth day.”

[23:27]  ³ sn See the description of this day and its regulations in Lev 16 and the notes there.

[23:27]  ⁴ tn Heb “you shall humble your souls.” See the note on Lev 16:29 above.

[23:40]  ³ tn Heb “fruit of majestic trees,” but the following terms and verses define what is meant by this expression. For extensive remarks on the celebration of this festival in history and tradition see B. A. Levine, Leviticus (JPSTC), 163; J. E. Hartley, Leviticus (WBC), 389-90; and P. J. Budd, Leviticus (NCBC), 328-29.

[23:41]  ⁴ tn Heb “for your generations.”

[25:47]  ⁵ tn Heb “And if the hand of a foreigner and resident with you reaches” (cf. v. 26 for this idiom).

[25:47]  ⁶ tn Heb “and.” The Hebrew conjunction ו (vav, “and”) can be considered to have resultative force here.

[25:47]  ⁷ tn Heb “offshoot, descendant.”

[26:5]  ⁶ tn Heb “will reach for you the vintage season.”

[26:5]  ⁷ tn Heb “and.” The Hebrew conjunction ו (vav, “and”) can be considered to have resultative force here.

[26:5]  ⁸ tn Heb “to satisfaction”; KJV, ASV, NASB “to the full.”