Exodus 12:16

New American Bible - revised edition

On the first day you will hold a sacred assembly, and likewise on the seventh. On these days no sort of work shall be done, except to prepare the food that everyone needs.

Cross References

Exodus 16:23

he told them, “That is what the Lord has prescribed. Tomorrow is a day of rest, a holy sabbath of the Lord. Whatever you want to bake, bake; whatever you want to boil, boil; but whatever is left put away and keep until the morning.”

Exodus 16:29

Take note! The Lord has given you the sabbath. That is why on the sixth day he gives you food for two days. Each of you stay where you are and let no one go out on the seventh day.

Exodus 16:5

On the sixth day, however, when they prepare what they bring in, let it be twice as much as they gather on the other days.

Exodus 20:10

but the seventh day is a sabbath of the Lord your God. You shall not do any work, either you, your son or your daughter, your male or female slave, your work animal, or the resident alien within your gates.

Exodus 34:18

You shall keep the festival of Unleavened Bread. For seven days at the appointed time in the month of Abib you are to eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you; for in the month of Abib you came out of Egypt.

Isaiah 1:13

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.

Leviticus 23:21

On this same day you shall make a proclamation: there shall be a declared holy day for you; no heavy work may be done. This shall be a perpetual statute through all your generations wherever you dwell.

Leviticus 23:27

Now the tenth day of this seventh month is the Day of Atonement. You will have a declared holy day. You shall humble yourselves and offer an oblation to the Lord.

Leviticus 23:35

On the first day, a declared holy day, you shall do no heavy work.

Numbers 28:18

On the first day you will declare a holy day, and you shall do no heavy work.

Numbers 28:25

On the seventh day you will declare a holy day: you shall do no heavy work. At Pentecost.

Numbers 28:26

On the day of first fruits, on your feast of Weeks, when you present to the Lord an offering of new grain, you will declare a holy day: you shall do no heavy work.

Numbers 29:1

In the seventh month on the first day you will declare a holy day, and do no heavy work; it shall be a day on which you sound the trumpet.

Numbers 29:12

On the fifteenth day of the seventh month you will declare a holy day: you shall do no heavy work. For the following seven days you will celebrate a pilgrimage feast to the Lord.

John 19:31

Now since it was preparation day, in order that the bodies might not remain on the cross on the sabbath, for the sabbath day of that week was a solemn one, the Jews asked Pilate that their legs be broken and they be taken down.

Deuteronomy 16:8

For six days you shall eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there shall be a solemn assembly for the Lord, your God; on that day you shall do no work. Feast of Weeks.