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For seven days you will eat unleavened bread, and the seventh day will also be a festival to the Lord.

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For seven days eat bread made without yeast and on the seventh day hold a festival(A) to the Lord.

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36 For seven days you shall offer an oblation to the Lord, and on the eighth day you will have a declared holy day. You shall offer an oblation to the Lord. It is the festival closing. You shall do no heavy work.

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36 For seven days present food offerings to the Lord, and on the eighth day hold a sacred assembly(A) and present a food offering to the Lord.(B) It is the closing special assembly; do no regular work.

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35 On the eighth day(A) you will hold a public assembly:[a] you shall do no heavy work.

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Footnotes

  1. 29:35 A public assembly: the Hebrew word is the technical term for the closing celebration of the three major feasts of the Passover, Pentecost and Booths, or of other special feasts that lasted for a week. Cf. Lv 23:36; Dt 16:8; 2 Chr 7:9; Neh 8:18.

35 “‘On the eighth day hold a closing special assembly(A) and do no regular work.

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13 Trample my courts no more!
    To bring offerings is useless;
    incense is an abomination to me.
New moon and sabbath, calling assemblies—
    festive convocations with wickedness—
    these I cannot bear.(A)

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13 Stop bringing meaningless offerings!(A)
    Your incense(B) is detestable(C) to me.
New Moons,(D) Sabbaths and convocations(E)
    I cannot bear your worthless assemblies.

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21 [a](A)I hate, I despise your feasts,
    I take no pleasure in your solemnities.

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Footnotes

  1. 5:21–27 The prophet does not condemn cultic activity as such but rather the people’s attempt to offer worship with hands unclean from oppression of their fellow Israelites (cf. Ps 15:2–5; 24:3–4). But worship from those who disregard justice and righteousness (v. 24) is never acceptable to the God of Israel. Through the Sinai covenant the love of God and the love of neighbor are inextricably bound together.

21 “I hate,(A) I despise your religious festivals;(B)
    your assemblies(C) are a stench to me.

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