Deuteronomy 16:8 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

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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

On the eighth day they held a solemn assembly, for they had observed the dedication of the altar seven days and the festival seven days.

Nehemiah 8:18

And day by day, from the first day to the last day, Ezra read from the book of the law of God. They kept the festival seven days, and on the eighth day there was a solemn assembly, according to the ordinance.

Joel 1:14

Consecrate a fast; call a solemn assembly. Gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land to the house of the Lord your God, and cry out to the Lord.

Leviticus 23:36

Seven days you shall present the Lord’s offerings by fire; on the eighth day you shall observe a holy convocation and present the Lord’s offerings by fire; it is a solemn assembly; you shall not work at your occupations.

Numbers 28:25

And on the seventh day you shall have a holy convocation; you shall not work at your occupations.