Numbers 29:35

_ON THE EIGHTH DAY YE SHALL HAVE A SOLEMN ASSEMBLY: YE SHALL DO NO SERVILE WORK THEREIN:_ On the eighth day. The feast of tabernacles was brought to a close on the eighth day, which was the great day (John 7:37). х_ `ATSERET_ (H6116), a congregation of the people at sacred festivals; Septuagint, exodion, a going out.] Besides the common routine sacrifices, there were offerings appointed for that day, though these were fewer than on any of the preceding days; and there were also, as was natural on that occasion, when vast multitudes were convened for solemn religious purpose, many spontaneous gifts and services, so that there was full scope for the exercise of a devout spirit in the people, both by their obedience to the statutory offerings and by the presentation of those which were made by free-will or in consequence of vows....

12-40 Soon after the day of atonement, the day in which men were to afflict their souls, followed the feast of Tabernacles, in which they were to rejoice before the Lord. Their days of rejoicing were to be days of sacrifices. A disposition to be cheerful does us good, when it encourages our hearts in the duties of God's service. All the days of dwelling in booths they must offer sacrifices; while we are here in a tabernacle state, it is our interest, as well as our duty, constantly to keep up communion with God. The sacrifices for each of the seven days are appointed. Every day there must be a sin-offering, as in the other feasts. Our burnt-offerings of praise cannot be accepted of God, unless we have an interest in the great sacrifice which Christ offered, when he made himself a Sin-offering for us. And no extraordinary services should put aside stated devotions. Every thing here remin...

Verse Numbers 29:35. _ON THE EIGHTH DAY YE SHALL HAVE A SOLEMN ASSEMBLY_] This among the Jews was esteemed the chief or high day of the feast, though fewer sacrifices were offered on it than on the others; the people seem to have finished the solemnity with a greater measure of spiritual devotion, and it was on this day of the feast that our blessed Lord called the Jews from the _letter_ to the _spirit_ of the law, proposing himself as the sole fountain whence they could derive the streams of salvation, John 7:37. On the subject of this chapter see the notes on Leviticus 12:1, Leviticus 16 and...

The offerings prescribed for the closing day of the Feast of tabernacles were the same with those appointed for the Feast of Trumpets and the Day of Atonement. The solemnities of the month thus terminated, as A whole, with the same sacrifices with which, three weeks before, they had been introduced; and the Day of Atonement, even though succeeded by the rejoicings of the Feast of tabernacles, thus left its impress on the whole month....

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

ON THE EIGHTH DAY YE SHALL HAVE A SOLEMN ASSEMBLY,.... The day after the seven days of the feast of tabernacles were ended; for this was not properly a part of that feast, but was a sort of appendage to it; YE SHALL DO NO SERVILE WORK THEREIN; Leviticus 23:36....

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 *....

SOLEMN ASSEMBLY. Compare Leviticus 23:36....

_a solemn assembly_ AN ASSEMBLY. The Heb. word _-aẓereth_contains nothing which implies that the assembly was of a specially solemn character. Before the exile an _-aẓereth_was held on the seventh day of the Feast of Unleavened Cakes (Deuteronomy 16:8); and see Isaiah 1:13 (R.V. -solemn meeting"), Amos 5:21. After the exile it was used, as here, of an assembly on the additional eighth day of the Feast of Booths (Leviticus 23:36; Nehemiah 8:18), and on a special fast day ...