Numbers 29:1

Offerings of the Seventh Month

1 '¹Now in the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall also have a holy convocation; ²you shall do no * laborious work. It will be to you a day for blowing trumpets.

Numbers 29:1 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 29:1

And in the seventh month
The month Tisri, as the Targum of Jonathan, which answers to part of our September and October; a month famous for days to be religiously observed, having more of them in it than any other month in the year:

on the first day of the month, ye shall have a holy convocation;
see ( Leviticus 23:24 ) ,

ye shall do no servile work;
therefore, in the place referred to, is called a sabbath:

it is a day of blowing the trumpets unto you;
of which, (See Gill on Leviticus 23:24).

Numbers 29:1 In-Context

1 'Now in the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall also have a holy convocation; you shall do no laborious work. It will be to you a day for blowing trumpets.

2 'You shall offer a burnt offering as a soothing aroma to the LORD : one bull , one ram, and seven male lambs one year old without defect;

3 also their grain offering, fine flour mixed with oil: three-tenths of an ephah for the bull, two-tenths for the ram,

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

5 'Offer one male goat for a sin offering, to make atonement for you,

Cross References

• 1. Exodus 23:16; Exodus 34:22; Leviticus 23:23-25
• 2. Numbers 28:26