Numbers 29:7

“ Each year, on the tenth day of the seventh month, you must gather together to worship me. Do not eat any food or do any work on that day.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

And ye shall have on the tenth day of this seventh month an holy convocation; and ye shall afflict your souls: ye shall not do any work therein:

In Context

6All of those animals are in addition to the animals that are completely burned on the altar each morning and on the first day of each month. The offerings of grain and wine must be made exactly as I have told you to do. When these offerings are burned, the smell will be very pleasing to me.”

8When you burn offerings on the altar on that day, the smell will be very pleasing to me. The animals that you must bring are one young bull, one male sheep, and seven male lambs that are one-year-old. They must have no defects.

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Cross References

Leviticus 23:26Yahweh also said to Moses/me,

Psalms 35:13When they were ill, I showed that I was sad. I did not eat any food, and I bowed my head as I prayed for them.

Isaiah 22:12The Commander of the armies of angels told you to weep and mourn; he told you to shave your heads and to wear rough sackcloth to show that you were sorry for the sins that you had committed.

Zechariah 7:3They also asked the priests at Yahweh’s temple and the prophets this question: “For many years, during the fifth month and during the seventh month of each year, we have mourned and ◄fasted/abstained from eating food►. Should we continue to do that?”

Matthew 5:4God is pleased with people who mourn because they have sinned; they will be encouraged {he will encourage them.}

Luke 13:5I assure you, that was not so! But instead, you need to realize that God will similarly punish you eternally if you do not stop your sinful behavior!”

Matthew Henry on Numbers 29:2-12

Solemnities of the Seventh Month. ( b. c. 1452.) 1 And in the seventh month, on the first day of the month, ye shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work: it is a day of blowing the trumpets unto you. 2 And ye shall offer a burnt offering for a sweet savour unto the Lord ; one young bullock, one ram, and seven lambs of the first year without blemish: 3 And their meat offering shall be of flour mingled with oil, three tenth deals for a bullock, and two tenth deals for a ram, 4 And one tenth deal… Read the whole commentary →

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