Leviticus 23:32

32 It shall be a holy sabbath to you; and ye shall humble your souls, from the ninth day of the month: from evening to evening ye shall keep your sabbaths.

Leviticus 23:32 Meaning and Commentary

Leviticus 23:32

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.

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FOOTNOTES:

F17 R. Alphes, par. 1. Yom Hacippurim, c. 1. fol. 357. 2.
F18 Ut supra, (Maimon. Hilchot Shebitat Asher) c. 1. sect. 6.

Leviticus 23:32 In-Context

30 And every soul which shall do work on that day, that soul shall be destroyed from among its people.

31 Ye shall do no manner of work: it is a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your habitations.

32 It shall be a holy sabbath to you; and ye shall humble your souls, from the ninth day of the month: from evening to evening ye shall keep your sabbaths.

33 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

34 Speak to the children of Israel, saying, On the fifteenth day of this seventh month, there shall be a feast of tabernacles seven days to the Lord.