Numbers 29:1
INTRODUCTION TO NUMBERS 29
In this chapter an account is given of the various offerings on the several remarkable days in the seventh month of the year; at the feast of blowing the trumpets on the first day of the month, Nu 29:1, at the great fast or day of atonement, which was the tenth of the month, Nu 29:7, and at the feast of tabernacles, which began on the fifteenth day of the same month, and continued eight days, and the sacrifices of every day are particularly mentioned; of the first day, Nu 29:12, of the second day, Nu 29:17, of the third day, Nu 29:20, of the fourth day, Nu 29:23, of the fifth day, Nu 29:26, of the sixth day, Nu 29:29, of the seventh day, Nu 29:32, and of the eighth day, Nu 29:35, which sacrifices were to be offered, besides their vows and freewill offerings, of which Moses gave a faithful account, according to the command of God, Nu 29:39.
Ver. 1. 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 Le 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, See Gill on "Le 23:24".