Leviticus 23:32
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What does Leviticus 23:32 mean?
It [shall be] unto you a sabbath of rest
(See Gill on
Leviticus 16:31); and this is thought by some F17 to be
the sabbath spoken of in ( Isaiah 58:13
) ;
and ye shall afflict your souls; in the ninth [day] of the
month at
even;
the fast was to begin at the close of the ninth day, and to
continue to the end of the tenth; so Maimonides F18: he
begins to fast and afflict himself at the evening of the ninth
next to the tenth; and so at the going out of it he continues in
his affliction a little while of the night of the eleventh, next
to the tenth, which is confirmed by what follows:
from even unto even shall ye celebrate your
sabbath;
which some understand of the sabbath in general; but it seems to
have a particular respect to the sabbath of the day of atonement,
which was to last from the evening of the ninth to the evening of
the tenth day.
F17 R. Alphes, par. 1. Yom Hacippurim, c. 1. fol. 357. 2.
F18 Ut supra, (Maimon. Hilchot Shebitat Asher) c. 1. sect. 6.
