Leviticus 23:31

_ALSO ON THE TENTH DAY OF THIS SEVENTH MONTH THERE SHALL BE A DAY OF ATONEMENT: IT SHALL BE AN HOLY CONVOCATION UNTO YOU; AND YE SHALL AFFLICT YOUR SOULS, AND OFFER AN OFFERING MADE BY FIRE UNTO THE LORD._ On the tenth day of this seventh month. On the 14th day of the first month (ecclesiastical year) the Israelites came out of Egypt; in 50 days after that the law was given from mount Sinai; then Moses was forty days on the mount (Exodus 24:18; Deuteronomy 9:9). After he came down he was 40 days interceding for the people, who had committed the sin of the golden calf (Deuteronomy 9:18). Again, he was 40 days on the mount for renewing the tables of the covenant ...

23-32 the blowing of trumpets represented the preaching of the gospel, by which men are called to repent of sin, and to accept the salvation of Christ, which was signified by the day of atonement. Also it invited to rejoice in God, and become strangers and pilgrims on earth, which was denoted by the feast of Tabernacles, observed in the same month. At the beginning of the year, they were called by this sound of trumpet to shake off spiritual drowsiness, to search and try their ways, and to amend them. The day of atonement was the ninth day after this; thus they were awakened to prepare for that day, by sincere and serious repentance, that it might indeed be to them a day of atonement. The humbling of our souls for sin, and the making our peace with God, is work that requires the whole man, and the closest application of mind. On that day God spake peace to his people, and to his saints;...

EXPOSITION LEVITICUS 23:8 The Feast of Unleavened Bread was instituted at the same time with the Feast of the Passover (Exodus 12:15-2), and from the beginning the two festivals were practically but one festival, never separated, though separable in idea. The Passover, strictly so called, lasted but one day, Nisan 14; the Feast of Unleavened Bread lasted seven days, Nisan 15-21. The whole made a festival of eight days, called indifferently the Feast of the Passover, or the Feast of Unleavened Bread. The bread to be eaten throughout the festival was unleavened, in order to remind the Israelites of the historical fact that on account of the urgency of the Egyptians, "the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading troughs being bound up in their c

YE SHALL DO NO MANNER OF WORK,.... Which is repeated, that it might be observed, and to show how strictly God required this day should be kept, and how careful men should be of breaking the command in this respect, and how much he should resent it if they did: [IT SHALL BE] A STATUTE FOR EVER, THROUGHOUT YOUR GENERATIONS, IN ALL YOUR DWELLINGS; unto the coming of the Messiah, who, by the atoning sacrifice of himself, would answer to this law, and put an end to it....

VI. THE HOLY FEASTS AND SET TIMES 1. The Holy Feasts and Set Times CHAPTER 23 _ 1. The Sabbath (Leviticus 23:1)_ 2. The feast of Passover and feast of unleavened bread (Leviticus 23:4) 3. The firstfruits (Leviticus 23:9) 4. The feast of weeks (Leviticus 23:15) 5. The blowing of trumpets (Leviticus 23:23) 6. The day of atonement (Leviticus 23:26) 7. The feast of tabernac

THE DAY OF ATONEMENT (P). No details are here given: a knowledge of Leviticus 16 is implied. The humiliation of the day's services is alone mentioned. If the ritual of the Day is later than 444 B.C. (see on Leviticus 16) this section must be a still later addition....

WORK. Some codices, with Samaritan Pentateuch, Syriac, and "Vulgate, add "therefore"....

Three festivals, the Blowing of Trumpets, the Day of Atonement, the Feast of Tabernacles (P)....

e. THE DAY OF ATONEMENT 23:26-32 TEXT 23:26-32 26 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying, 27 Howbeit on the tenth day of this seventh month is the day of atonement; it shall be a holy convocation unto you, and ye shall afflict your souls; and ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto Jehovah. 28 And ye shall do no manner of work in that same day; for it is a day of atonement, to make atonement for you before Jehovah your God. 29 For whatsoever soul it be that shall not be afflicted in that same day; he shall be cut off from his people. 30 And whatsoever soul it be that doeth any manner of work in that same day, that soul will I destroy from among his people. 31 Ye shall do no manner of work: it is a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings. 32 It shall be unto you a sabbath of solemn rest, and ye shall afflict your souls: in the ninth day of the mo...

THE SACRED SEASONS These are the Sabbath (Leviticus 23:3), Passover and Unleavened Bread (Leviticus 23:5), Feast of Weeks, or Pentecost (Leviticus 23:15), Feast of Trumpets (Leviticus 23:23), Day of Atonement (Leviticus 23:26), and Feast of Booths or Tabernacles (Leviticus 23:33)....