Numbers 29:7

Offerings for the Day of Atonement

7 "You are to hold a sacred assembly on the tenth [day] of this seventh month and practice self-denial;^[a] you must not do any work.

Numbers 29:7 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 29:7

And ye shall have on the tenth day of the seventh month an holy
convocation
The month Tisri, as before; so the Targum of Jonathan:

and ye shall afflict your souls;
or persons; their bodies by fasting, and their souls by repentance and humiliation; for this was a grand fast, as it is called ( Acts 27:9 ) ,

ye shall not do any work [therein];
see ( Leviticus 23:28 ) .

Numbers 29:7 In-Context

5 Also [offer] one male goat as a sin offering to make atonement for yourselves.

6 These are in addition to the monthly and regular burnt offerings with their grain offerings and drink offerings. They are a pleasing aroma, a fire offering to the Lord.

7 "You are to hold a sacred assembly on the tenth [day] of this seventh month and practice self-denial; you must not do any work.

8 Present a burnt offering to the Lord, a pleasing aroma: one young bull, one ram, and seven male lambs a year old. [All] your animals are to be unblemished.

9 Their grain offering is to be of fine flour mixed with oil, six quarts with the bull, four quarts with the ram,

Footnotes

• [a] Traditionally, this involved fasting, abstinence from sex, and refraining from personal grooming