Six days: Exodus 12:15-16, Exodus 13:7-8; Leviticus 23:6-8; Numbers 28:17-19
solemn assembly: Heb. restraint, Leviticus 23:36; 2 Chronicles 7:9; Nehemiah 8:18; Joel 1:14 *marg.
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Deuteronomy 16:8
Deuteronomy 16:8
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