_A.M. 2552. B.C. 1452._ Offerings to be made in the seventh month; (1,) _ At the feast of trumpets, Numbers 29:1._ (2,) _ In the day of atonement. 7-11._ (3,) _ At the feast of tabernacles, Numbers 29:12._... [ Continue Reading ]
The sixth national sacrifice, which was also annual, was to be performed on the festival of trumpets, upon the first day of the seventh month of the ecclesiastical year, being the first month of the civil year, answering to our September. It was to be kept in the manner of a sabbath, with great rejo... [ Continue Reading ]
_Ye shall offer a burnt-offering_, &c. As this was a double festival, it was to be solemnized with these additional sacrifices, besides the sacrifices appointed on the foregoing festivals, (Numbers 28:19; Numbers 28:27,) which were also to be offered upon this day, on account of its being the beginn... [ Continue Reading ]
_According unto their manner_ Or the order which God appointed: first, the daily morning sacrifice was offered; then the sacrifices for the first day of every month; then those additional sacrifices for the first day of the seventh month.... [ Continue Reading ]
_And on the tenth day a holy convocation_ On this day was offered annually their seventh national sacrifice. It was the great day of atonement, a day of special humiliation, fasting, and prayer; concerning the particular ceremonies whereof, see on Leviticus 16:29; and Leviticus 23:27. _Afflict your... [ Continue Reading ]
The eighth and last of these national sacrifices, which was also annual, was to be at the feast of tabernacles, to be observed on the fifteenth day of this same seventh month, in solemn commemoration of their travels in the wilderness, and as a thanksgiving for their happy settlement in the land of... [ Continue Reading ]
_Thirteen young bullocks_ Thus they continued to be offered seven days successively, with the decrease only of one bullock every day, till on the seventh day only seven bullocks were offered, which in all made seventy bullocks. The rams also were in double proportion to what was usual. This was a va... [ Continue Reading ]
_One bullock, one ram_, &c. This was the last and great day of the feast, (John 7:37,) and yet the sacrifices were fewer than on any other day; which served both to render the public worship less toilsome and expensive, and to teach them not to trust in the multitude of their sacrifices, nor to expe... [ Continue Reading ]
_Besides your vows and free-will-offerings_ Your ordinary sacrifices shall not be omitted because of the extraordinary, which ye offer on special occasions. It appears by this account that there were every year sacrificed at the tabernacle and temple, at the stated national charge, the following num... [ Continue Reading ]