18In the first day shall be an holy convocation; ye shall do no manner of servile work therein:
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And in the first day there shall be an holy convocation, and in the seventh day there shall be an holy convocation to you; no manner of work shall be done in them, save that which every man must eat, that only may be done of you.
In the first day ye shall have an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 16-31)Here is, I. The appointment of the pass-over sacrifices; not that which was the chief, the paschal lamb (sufficient instructions had formerly been given concerning that), but those which were to be offered upon the seven days of unleavened bread, which followed it, Num. 28:17-25. The first and last of those seven days were to be sanctified as sabbaths, by a holy rest and a holy convocation, and on…
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