Numbers 29:12

Festival of Booths

12 The fifteenth day of the seventh month will be a holy occasion for you. You will not do any job-related work. You will celebrate a festival to the LORD for seven days.

Numbers 29:12 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 29:12

And on the fifteenth day of the seventh month ye shall have
an holy convocation
Of the same month Tisri, which was the seventh from Nisan or Abib, though it was formerly the first month of the year:

ye shall do no servile work, and ye shall keep a feast unto the Lord
seven days;
the feast of tabernacles, which began on the fifteenth day of this month.

Numbers 29:12 In-Context

10 and one-tenth for each of the seven lambs.

11 There will be one male goat for a purification offering in addition to the purification offering of reconciliation, and the regular entirely burned offering with its grain offering and drink offerings.

12 The fifteenth day of the seventh month will be a holy occasion for you. You will not do any job-related work. You will celebrate a festival to the LORD for seven days.

13 You will present an entirely burned offering, a food gift as a soothing smell to the LORD: thirteen bulls from the herd, two rams, and fourteen male lambs one year old. They will be flawless.

14 Their grain offering will be fine flour mixed with oil: three-tenths for each of the thirteen bulls, two-tenths for each of the two rams,

Footnotes

• [a] September–October, Tishrei