Offerings by fire: or “food offerings.” See 1.9. The details of this ritual are given in Numbers 29.13-34.

You shall hold a holy convocation …: since this is the second gathering for worship during this festival, it may be better to say “have another gathering for worship” or “come together again for worship” as in Good News Translation.

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 .