16 You are to hold a sacred assembly(A) on the first day and another sacred assembly on the seventh day. No work may be done on those days except for preparing what people need to eat—you may do only that.

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“Work may be done for six days, but on the seventh day there must be a Sabbath of complete rest,(A) a sacred assembly. You are not to do any work; it is a Sabbath(B) to the Lord wherever you live.

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28 On this particular day you are not to do any work, for it is a Day of Atonement to make atonement for yourselves before the Lord your God.

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31 You are not to do any work. This is a permanent statute throughout your generations wherever you live.

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Offerings for the Day of Atonement

“You are to hold a sacred assembly on the tenth day of this seventh month and practice self-denial;[a](A) you must not do any work.

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 29:7 Traditionally, fasting, abstinence from sex, and refraining from personal grooming

22 You must not carry a load out of your houses on the Sabbath day or do any work,(A) but you must consecrate the Sabbath day, just as I commanded your ancestors.(B)

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