Leviticus 23:29

29 For whoever is not afflicted on that very day ¹shall be cut off from his people.

Leviticus 23:29 Meaning and Commentary

Leviticus 23:29

For whatsoever soul [it be] that shall not be afflicted in
that same day
That is, as the Targums of Jonathan and Jerusalem explain it, which can fast and does not fast; for a sick person, and a child under nine years of age, were not obliged to fast on this day {p}:

he shall be cut off from among his people;
by an untimely death, by the hand of God; the Targum of Jonathan says, by the pestilence.

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FOOTNOTES:

F16 Maimon. Hilchot Shebitat Ashur, c. 2. sect. 8, 10.

Leviticus 23:29 In-Context

27 “Now on the tenth day of this seventh month is the Day of Atonement. It shall be for you a time of holy convocation, and you shall afflict yourselves and present a food offering to the Lord.

28 And you shall not do any work on that very day, for it is a Day of Atonement, to make atonement for you before the Lord your God.

29 For whoever is not afflicted on that very day shall be cut off from his people.

30 And whoever does any work on that very day, that person I will destroy from among his people.

31 You shall not do any work. It is a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwelling places.

Cross References

• 1. 23:29 See Ex. 30:33