Numbers 29:11

_AND YE SHALL HAVE ON THE TENTH DAY OF THIS SEVENTH MONTH AN HOLY CONVOCATION; AND YE SHALL AFFLICT YOUR SOULS: YE SHALL NOT DO ANY WORK THEREIN:_ Ye shall have on the tenth day of this seventh month - this was the great day of atonement. Its institution, together with the observance to which that day was devoted, was described, Leviticus 16:29. But additional offerings seem to be noticed-namely, the large animal sacrifice for a general expiation, which was a sweet savour unto the Lord, and the sin offering to atone for the sins that mingled with that day's services. The prescriptions in this passage appear supplementary to the former statement in Leviticus....

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....

The offering on the great Day of Atonement was the same with that just specified. The great ceremonies of the day are described in Leviticus 16....

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

ONE KID OF THE GOATS FOR A SIN OFFERING,.... This also, as it was different from that which was offered for the service of the day, so it was offered after it; as is observed by the Jewish writers, that the goat, which was offered without, though of the Musaphim, or additions, could not go before the service of the day for it is said as follows, BESIDE THE SIN OFFERING OF ATONEMENT; hence, say they, we learn, that the goat within, which was of the service of the day, went before it n; after that the ram of Aaron, and the ram of the people, and after that the fat of the sin offering: AND THE CONTINUAL BURNT OFFERING, AND THE MEAT OFFERING OF IT, AND THEIR DRINK OFFERINGS; which were never omitted on account of the service of any day, though ever so solemn, as this was: hence it appears that there were offered on this day of atonement two bullocks, three rams, three goats, and two lambs....

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 *....

_beside the sin offering of atonement_ An incidental reference to the solemn ceremony which gave its name to the day. It is described in Leviticus 16, on which Hebrews 9:7-12; Hebrews 9:23-28 is based....

G. OFFERINGS FOR THE DAY OF ATONEMENT vv. 7-11 TEXT Numbers 29:7. And ye shall have on the tenth day of this seventh month a holy convocation; and ye shall afflict your souls: ye shall not do any work therein: 8. But ye shall offer a burnt offering unto the Lord for a sweet savor; one young bullock, one ram, and seven lambs of the first year; they shall be unto you without blemish. 9. And their meat offering shall be of flour mingled with oil, three tenth deals to a bullock, and two tenth deals to one ram, 10. A several tenth deal for one lamb, throughout the seven lambs: 11. One kid of the goats for a sin offering; beside the sin offering of atonement, and the continual burnt offering, and the meat offering of it, and their drink offerings. PARAPHRASE Numbers 29:7. And on the tenth

RELIGIOUS ORDINANCES OF THE SEVENTH MONTH The seventh month (_Tishri_ = September-October) was the first month of the civil year (see on Leviticus 23:23), and this chapter describes the three sacred festivals which fell during that month. 1-6. The Feast of Trumpets on New Tear's Day: see Leviticus 23:23. 7-11. The Day of Atonement, the tenth day of the month: see Leviticus 16. 12-38. The Feast of Tabernacles, beginning on the fifteenth day of the month and lasting eight days. The sacrifices proper to this feast are unusually numerous, a feature expressive of its joyous nature, as the Feast of Harvest Thanksgiving: see...