Deuteronomy 16:8 - New King James Version

⁸ Six days you shall eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there shall be a sacred assembly to the Lord your God. You shall do no work on it.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ Six days thou shalt eat unleavened bread: and on the seventh day shall be a solemn assembly to the LORD thy God: thou shalt do no work therein.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ For six days you shall eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there shall be a solemn assembly to the Lord your God; you shall do no work on it.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ Six days thou shalt eat unleavened bread; and on the seventh day shall be a solemn assembly to Jehovah thy God; thou shalt do no work therein.

Common English Bible

⁸ For six days you will eat unleavened bread. The seventh day will be a celebration for the LORD your God. Don’t do any work.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ For six days, you shall eat unleavened bread. And on the seventh day, because it is the assembly of the Lord your God, you shall do no work.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁸ Six days shalt thou eat unleavened bread: and on the seventh day, because it is the assembly of the Lord thy God, thou shalt do no work.

Deuteronomy 16:8 Cross References

2 Chronicles 7:9

And on the eighth day they held a sacred assembly, for they observed the dedication of the altar seven days, and the feast seven days.

Nehemiah 8:18

Also day by day, from the first day until the last day, he read from the Book of the Law of God. And they kept the feast seven days; and on the eighth day there was a sacred assembly, according to the prescribed manner.

Joel 1:14

Consecrate a fast, Call a sacred assembly; Gather the elders And all the inhabitants of the land Into the house of the Lord your God, And cry out to the Lord.

Leviticus 23:36

For seven days you shall offer an offering made by fire to the Lord. On the eighth day you shall have a holy convocation, and you shall offer an offering made by fire to the Lord. It is a sacred assembly, and you shall do no customary work on it.

Numbers 28:25

And on the seventh day you shall have a holy convocation. You shall do no customary work.