On the first day: the text implies the first of the seven days mentioned in the previous verse. For this reason Good News Translation adds “… of these days.”

Holy convocation: see verse 3.

Laborious work: see verse 7.

Quoted with permission from Péter-Contesse, René and Ellington, John. A Handbook on Leviticus. (UBS Helps for Translators). New York: UBS, 1990. For this and other handbooks for translators see here .