“However on the tenth day of this seventh month is the day of atonement. It shall be a holy convocation to you. You shall afflict yourselves and you shall offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh. You shall do no kind of work in that same day, for it is a day of atonement, to make atonement for you before Yahweh your God. For whoever it is who shall not deny himself in that same day shall be cut off from his people. Whoever does any kind of work in that same day, I will destroy that person from among his people. You shall do no kind of work: it is a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings. It shall be a Sabbath of solemn rest for you, and you shall deny yourselves. In the ninth day of the month at evening, from evening to evening, you shall keep your Sabbath.”
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Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, “However on the tenth day of this seventh month is the day of atonement. It shall be a holy convocation to you. You shall afflict yourselves and you shall offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh. You shall do no kind of work in that same day, for it is a day of atonement, to make atonement for you before Yahweh your God. For whoever it is who shall not deny himself in that same day shall be cut off from his people. Whoever does any kind of work in that same day, I will destroy that person from among his people. You shall do no kind of work: it is a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings. It shall be a Sabbath of solemn rest for you, and you shall deny yourselves. In the ninth day of the month at evening, from evening to evening, you shall keep your Sabbath.”
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“However on the tenth day of this seventh month is the day of atonement. It shall be a holy convocation to you. You shall afflict yourselves and you shall offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh.
You shall do no kind of work in that same day, for it is a day of atonement, to make atonement for you before Yahweh your God.
For whoever it is who shall not deny himself in that same day shall be cut off from his people.
Whoever does any kind of work in that same day, I will destroy that person from among his people.
You shall do no kind of work: it is a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
It shall be a Sabbath of solemn rest for you, and you shall deny yourselves. In the ninth day of the month at evening, from evening to evening, you shall keep your Sabbath.”
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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.
And ye shall do no work in that same day: for it is a day of atonement, to make an atonement for you before the LORD your God.
For whatsoever soul it be that shall not be afflicted in that same day, he shall be cut off from among his people.
And whatsoever soul it be that doeth any work in that same day, the same soul will I destroy from among his people.
Ye shall do no manner of work: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
It shall be unto you a sabbath of rest, and ye shall afflict your souls: in the ninth day of the month at even, from even unto even, shall ye celebrate your sabbath.
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Howbeit on the tenth day of this seventh month is the day of atonement; there shall be a holy convocation unto you, and ye shall afflict your souls; and ye shall bring an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
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 the LORD your God.
For whatsoever soul it be that shall not be afflicted in that same day, he shall be cut off from his people.
And whatsoever soul it be that doeth any manner of work in that same day, that soul will I destroy from among his people.
Ye shall do no manner of work; it is a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
It shall be unto you a sabbath of solemn rest, and ye shall afflict your souls; in the ninth day of the month at even, from even unto even, shall ye keep your sabbath.
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- Leviticus 16:29-31 (v27) “It shall be a statute to you forever: in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you shall afflict your souls, and shall do no…
- Exodus 30:10 (v27) Aaron shall make atonement on its horns once in the year; with the blood of the sin offering of atonement once in the year he shall make…
- Leviticus 16:24 (v27) Then he shall bathe himself in water in a holy place, put on his garments, and come out and offer his burnt offering and the burnt offering…
- Leviticus 16:15 (v27) “Then he shall kill the goat of the sin offering that is for the people, and bring his blood within the veil, and do with his blood as he…
- Numbers 29:7-11 (v27) “ ‘On the tenth day of this seventh month you shall have a holy convocation. You shall afflict your souls. You shall do no kind of work;…
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- Isaiah 58:5 (v27) Is this the fast that I have chosen? A day for a man to humble his soul? Is it to bow down his head like a reed, and to spread sackcloth…
- Leviticus 16:11 (v27) “Aaron shall present the bull of the sin offering, which is for himself, and shall make atonement for himself and for his house, and shall…
- Leviticus 25:9 (v27) Then you shall sound the loud trumpet on the tenth day of the seventh month. On the Day of Atonement you shall sound the trumpet throughout…
- Ezra 8:21 (v27) Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river Ahava, that we might humble ourselves before our God, to seek from him a straight way for us,…
- Daniel 10:2-3 (v27) In those days I, Daniel, was mourning three whole weeks. I ate no pleasant bread. No meat or wine came into my mouth. I didn’t anoint…
- Zechariah 12:10 (v27) I will pour on David’s house, and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplication; and they will look to me whom…
- Acts 2:37-38 (v27) Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, “Brothers, what shall we do?” Peter…
- 2 Corinthians 7:10-11 (v27) For godly sorrow produces repentance to salvation, which brings no regret. But the sorrow of the world produces death. For behold, this…
- Genesis 17:14 (vv29–30) The uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that soul shall be cut off from his people. He has broken my…
- Leviticus 23:27 (vv29, 32) “However on the tenth day of this seventh month is the day of atonement. It shall be a holy convocation to you. You shall afflict…
- Psalms 35:13 (vv27, 32) But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth. I afflicted my soul with fasting. My prayer returned into my own bosom.
- Leviticus 16:31 (v32) It is a Sabbath of solemn rest to you, and you shall afflict your souls. It is a statute forever.
- Leviticus 16:34 (v28) “This shall be an everlasting statute for you, to make atonement for the children of Israel once in the year because of all their sins.” It…
- Leviticus 20:3 (v30) I also will set my face against that person, and will cut him off from among his people, because he has given of his offspring to Molech,…
- Leviticus 23:32 (v29) It shall be a Sabbath of solemn rest for you, and you shall deny yourselves. In the ninth day of the month at evening, from evening to…
- Numbers 5:2 (v29) “Command the children of Israel that they put out of the camp every leper, everyone who has a discharge, and whoever is unclean by a corpse.
- Psalms 51:17 (v32) The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit. O God, you will not despise a broken and contrite heart.
- Psalms 69:10-11 (v32) When I wept and I fasted, that was to my reproach. When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword to them.
- Zechariah 3:9 (v28) For, behold, the stone that I have set before Joshua; on one stone are seven eyes: behold, I will engrave its engraving,’ says Yahweh of…
- Matthew 11:28-30 (v32) “Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am…
- James 4:9 (v27) Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to gloom.
- Leviticus 20:5-6 (v30) then I will set my face against that man and against his family, and will cut him off, and all who play the prostitute after him to play…
- Isaiah 22:12 (v29) In that day, the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, called to weeping, to mourning, to baldness, and to dressing in sackcloth;
- Isaiah 53:10 (v28) Yet it pleased Yahweh to bruise him. He has caused him to suffer. When you make his soul an offering for sin, he will see his offspring. He…
- Isaiah 57:15 (v32) For the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy, says: “I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also who is of a…
- Isaiah 58:3-7 (v32) ‘Why have we fasted,’ they say, ‘and you don’t see? Why have we afflicted our soul, and you don’t notice?’ “Behold, in the day of your fast…
- Isaiah 61:3 (v32) to provide for those who mourn in Zion, to give to them a garland for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the…
- Jeremiah 15:7 (v30) I have winnowed them with a fan in the gates of the land. I have bereaved them of children. I have destroyed my people. They didn’t return…
- Jeremiah 31:9 (v29) They will come with weeping. I will lead them with petitions. I will cause them to walk by rivers of waters, in a straight way in which…
- Ezekiel 7:16 (v29) But those of those who escape, they will escape and will be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them moaning, everyone in…
- Ezekiel 14:9 (v30) “ ‘ “If the prophet is deceived and speaks a word, I, Yahweh, have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand on him, and will…
- Daniel 9:24 (v28) “Seventy weeks are decreed on your people and on your holy city, to finish disobedience, and to make an end of sins, and to make…
- Zephaniah 2:5 (v30) Woe to the inhabitants of the sea coast, the nation of the Cherethites! Yahweh’s word is against you, Canaan, the land of the Philistines.…
- Matthew 5:4 (v32) Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.
- Romans 5:10-11 (v28) For if while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we will be saved by his…
- 1 Corinthians 3:17 (v30) If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him; for God’s temple is holy, which you are.
- 1 Corinthians 11:31 (v32) For if we discerned ourselves, we wouldn’t be judged.
- Hebrews 4:3 (v32) For we who have believed do enter into that rest, even as he has said, “As I swore in my wrath, they will not enter into my rest;” although…
- Hebrews 4:11 (v32) Let’s therefore give diligence to enter into that rest, lest anyone fall after the same example of disobedience.
- Hebrews 9:12 (v28) nor yet through the blood of goats and calves, but through his own blood, entered in once for all into the Holy Place, having obtained…
- Hebrews 9:26 (v28) or else he must have suffered often since the foundation of the world. But now once at the end of the ages, he has been revealed to put…
- Hebrews 10:10 (v28) by which will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
- Hebrews 10:14 (v28) For by one offering he has perfected forever those who are being sanctified.
- 1 John 2:2 (v28) And he is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world.
- 1 John 4:10 (v28) In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.
- 1 John 5:6 (v28) This is he who came by water and blood, Jesus Christ; not with the water only, but with the water and the blood. It is the Spirit who…
- Psalms 126:5-6 (v32) Those who sow in tears will reap in joy. He who goes out weeping, carrying seed for sowing, will certainly come again with joy, carrying…
- Isaiah 57:18-19 (v32) I have seen his ways, and will heal him. I will lead him also, and restore comforts to him and to his mourners. I create the fruit of the…
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain On vv27, 32 By fasting and prayer.
By fasting and prayer.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain On v27 Lev 23:27 Also on the tenth [day] of this…
Lev 23:27 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.
Ver. 27. Also on the tenth day.] {See Trapp on "Lev 16:31"} Thus they were kept in sorrow five days, before they might keep their feast of joy. {Lev 23:34}
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain On vv27, 29, 32 Ye shall afflict your souls, with fasting, and bitter…
Ye shall afflict your souls, with fasting, and bitter repentance for all, especially their national sins, among which no doubt God would have them remember their sin of the golden calf. For as God had threatened to remember it in after-times to punish them for it, Exo 32:34, so there was great reason why they should remember it to humble themselves for it.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain On vv27–32 Also on the tenth day of this seventh month,....…
Also on the tenth day of this seventh month,.... Tisri, the same as before, answering to part of our September, and part of October:
there shall be a day of atonement; for all the sins of the year past; see Lev 16:29,
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it shall be an holy convocation unto you: when they should be called together for the exercise of holy duties:
and ye shall afflict your souls; their souls, by repentance, contrition, and humiliation for sin, and their bodies by fasting; and, as the Targum of Jonathan paraphrases it,"by abstaining from eating and drinking, and the advantage of bathing and wiping, and the use of the bed and sandals;''hence called the fast, Act 27:9; See Gill on Lev 16:29,
and offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord; a burnt offering, of which see Num 29:8.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain On vv27, 28, 32 Afflict your souls - With fasting, and bitter repentance…
Afflict your souls - With fasting, and bitter repentance for all, especially their national sins, among which no doubt God would have them remember their sin of the golden calf. For as God had threatened to remember it in after times to punish them for it, so there was great reason why they should remember it to humble themselves for it.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain On v28 Verse 28. A day of atonement] See Clarke on…
Verse 28. A day of atonement] See Clarke on Le 16:2, &c., where this subject is largely explained.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain On vv27, 29, 31, 32 Lev 23:27. Afflict your souls — With fasting and…
Lev 23:27. Afflict your souls — With fasting and bitter repentance for all, and especially their national sins, among which, no doubt, God would have them remember their sin of the golden calf. For as God had threatened to remember it in after-times to punish them for it, so there was great reason why they should remember it to humble themselves for it.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain On v27 Also - Surely. On the special rites of the…
Also - Surely. On the special rites of the day, the tenth of Tisri, that is from the evening of the ninth day of the month to that of the tenth Lev 23:32, see Lev. 16.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain On vv27, 28, 29, 32
CHAPTER XXIII.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain On v27 there shall be a day of atonement . .…
there shall be a day of atonement . . . and ye shall afflict your souls--an unusual festival, at which the sins of the whole year were expiated. (See Lev 16:29-34). It is here only stated that the severest penalty was incurred by the violation of this day.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain On v29 29. He shall be cut off — He shall…
29. He shall be cut off — He shall be destroyed. Impenitence is a capital offence. When persisted in beyond a certain point there is no expiation possible.
“There is a time, we know not when,
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A point, we know not where,
That marks the destiny of men
For glory or despair.”
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain On v32 32. from even unto even] i.e. from sunset to…
32. from even unto even] i.e. from sunset to sunset, according to the Jewish mode of reckoning the day.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain On vv27–32 (27) Also on the tenth.—See Lev_16:29.
(27) Also on the tenth.—See Lev_16:29.
And ye shall afflict your souls.—That is, fast. (See Lev_16:29.)
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And offer an offering.—See Num_29:8-11.
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C. I. Scofield 1917 · Public Domain On v27 The day of Atonement, Lev 23:26-32. The day is…
atonement
The day of Atonement, Lev 23:26-32. The day is the same described in Leviticus 16, but here the stress is laid upon the sorrow and repentance of Israel. In other words, the prophetical feature is made prominent, and that looks forward to the repentance of Israel after her regathering under the Palestinian Covenant, Deu 30:1-10 preparatory to the second advent of Messiah and the establishment of the kingdom. See the connection between the "trumpet" in Joe 2:1 and the mourning which follows in verses Joe 2:11-15.
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Also Zec 12:10-13 in connection with the atonement of Zec 13:1. Historically the "fountain" of Zec 13:1 was opened at the crucifixion, but rejected by the Jews of that and the succeeding centuries. After the regathering of Israel the fountain will be efficaciously "opened" to Israel.
atonement
(See Scofield "Exo 29:33").
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On vv28, 30 Connecting Statement:
Connecting Statement:
Yahweh continues telling Moses what the people must do every year.
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must be cut off from his people
Being excluded is spoken of as being cut off. See how you translated this idea in Leviticus 7:20. AT: "must be excluded from his people" or "you must separate that person from his people" (See: Metaphor and Active or Passive)
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On vv27, 29 23:27 The Day of Atonement was the most solemn…
23:27 The Day of Atonement was the most solemn day in the Israelite calendar and the only day of fasting (ch 16). The high priest made atonement for the corporate sin of the people, laying the theological foundation for the atonement made by Jesus Christ (Heb 9:11-12).
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