Numbers 29:1

_AND IN THE SEVENTH MONTH, ON THE FIRST DAY OF THE MONTH, YE SHALL HAVE AN HOLY CONVOCATION; YE SHALL DO NO SERVILE WORK: IT IS A DAY OF BLOWING THE TRUMPETS UNTO YOU._ In the seventh month - of the ecclesiastical year, but the first month of the civil year, corresponding to our September. It was at a subsequent period, but before the Christian era, the New Years Day, which had been celebrated among the Hebrew and other contemporary nations With great festivity and joy, and ushered in by a flourish of trumpets. This ordinance was designed to give a religious character to the occasion, by associating it with some solemn observances (cf. Exodus 12:2; Leviticus 23:24). IT IS A DAY OF BLOWING THE TRUMPETS UNTO YOU, х_ YOWM_ (H3117

1_And in the seventh month. _I have already observed that the festivals are not here (_generally_) treated of, but only the sacrifices, by which their solemnization was to be graced. In the beginning of the seventh month was the memorial, as it was called, of the blowing of trumpets. Because it was a minor festival, Moses only commands one bullock to be killed; but the number was increased on other grounds, for we have already seen that on the first of every month two bullocks were sacrificed. This day, therefore, had three larger victims, whilst the number of the others was doubled, so that there were two rams and fourteen lambs. Thus, then, God consecrated this day doubly to Himself, so that one celebration diminished nothing of the other; else He might have seemed to have abrogated what He had once commanded. The memorial of trumpets was not, then, an abolition of the new-moon, but th...

1-11 There were more sacred solemnities in the seventh month than in any other. It was the space between harvest and seed-time. The more leisure we have from the pressing occupations of this life, the more time we should spend in the immediate service of God. The blowing of the trumpets was appointed, Leviticus 22:24. Here they are directed what sacrifices to offer on that day. Those who would know the mind of God in the Scriptures, must compare one part with another. The latter discoveries of Divine light explain what was dark, and supply what was wanting, in the former, that the man of God may be perfect....

CHAPTER XXIX _The feast of_ trumpets _on the_ first _day of the seventh month_, _and its sacrifices_, 1-6. _The feast of_ expiation, _or_ annual atonement, _on the_ tenth _day of the same month, with its sacrifices_, 7-11. _The feast of_ tabernacles, _held on the_ fifteenth _day of the same_ _month, with its_ eight _days' offerings_, 12. _The offerings of the_ first day, _thirteen_ bullocks, _two_ rams, _fourteen_ lambs, _and one_ kid, 13-16. _The offerings of the_ second day, _twelve_ bullocks, _two_ rams,

The ordinance of the Feast of Trumpets was to be observed on the opening day of that month within which the great Day of the Atonement and the Feast of Tabernacles fell (compare Leviticus 23:23 ff). The special offering for the day anticipated that of the great Day of Atonement....

EXPOSITION THE ROUTINE OF SACRIFICIAL OFFERINGS (Numbers 28:1, Numbers 29:1). NUMBERS 28:1 THE LORD SPAKE UNTO MOSES. It is impossible to say with any assurance whether the law of offerings contained in these two chapters was really given to Moses shortly before his death, or whether it was ever given in this connected and completed form. It is obvious that the formula with which the section opens might be used with equal propriety to introduce a digest of the law on this subject compiled by Moses himself, or by some subsequent editor of his writings from a number of scattered reg

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, Leviticus 23:24....

SEVENTH MONTH That is, October; also (Numbers 29:7); (Numbers 29:12)....

5. THE OFFERINGS AND THE SET TIMES CHAPTER 28 _ 1. The daily offerings (Numbers 28:1)_ 2. The Sabbatic offerings (Numbers 28:9) 3. The monthly offerings (Numbers 28:11) 4. The Passover (Numbers 28:16) 5. The firstfruits (Numbers 28:26) CHAPTER 29 _ 1. The blowing of trumpets (Numbers 29:1)_ 2. The day of atonement ...

NUMBERS 28-29. THE NATURE AND AMOUNT OF THE OFFERINGS REQUIRED ON VARIOUS HOLY DAYS. The quantities prescribed for special festivals did not exhaust all the sacrifices offered upon them: on every festival the special sacrifices were supplemented by the daily offerings; on the first of the seventh month the distinctive offerings were supplemented by the offerings required for the first of each ordinary month; whilst on the tenth of the seventh month the sin offering of atonement (Leviticus 16) was supplementary to the other sacrifices here enjoined. For the ephah and hin, see Numbers 15:4 *....