On the first day shall be a holy convocation; you shall do no laborious work.What is meant by laborious work? This is always one of those questions that I can't recall a clear answer for. While there have been many people I've heard what did or did not count as laborious work, most of their definitions come from the Pharisaical laws of Jesus' day, not the original law from Moses' time.
The reason this really caught my eye is that the second day was the day of the feast. However, the Jewish day is sunset to sunset, so that second day is what we would consider the evening of the first. How are you supposed to prepare a feast if you can do no laborious work? Does it mean that preparing food is not considered laborious? Or is there some special dispensation for it, not listed here? Or perhaps is the feast supposed to be prepared after sunset? I don't know, but I'm guessing the first answer, that preparing is not considered labor, is the closest to correct.
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