Leviticus 23:29
in Leviticus 23If anyone does not humble himself on this day, he must be cut off from his people.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
For whatsoever soul it be that shall not be afflicted in that same day; he shall be cut off from his people.
KJV
For whatsoever soul it be that shall not be afflicted in that same day, he shall be cut off from among his people.
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This verse in Leviticus 23
Commentary
5 notes on this verseFor whatsoever soul it be that shall not be afflicted in that same day,.... That is, as the Targums of Jonathan and Jerusalem explain it, which can fast and does not fast; for a sick person, and a child under nine years of age, were not obliged to fast on this day (p): he shall be cut off from among his people; by an untimely death, by the hand of God; the Targum of Jonathan says, by the pestilence. (p) Maimon. Hilchot Shebitat Ashur, c. 2. sect. 8, 10.
This site's exposition
If anyone does not humble himself on this day
on Leviticus 23:29-33
These are the only penalties in the chapter, and there are two. Anyone who does not humble himself is cut off from his people. Anyone who works hears the LORD speaking in the first person, "I will destroy" him.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
The reason is: For it is a day of atonement. Note, The humbling of our souls for sin, and the making of our peace with God, is work that requires the whole man, and the closest application of mind imaginable, and all little enough. He that would do the work of a day of atonement in its day, as it should be done, had need lay aside the thoughts of every thing else.
Every soul must be afflicted, because every soul was polluted, and guilty before God; while none have fulfilled the law of innocency none are exempt from the law of repentance, besides that every man must sigh and cry for the abominations of the land.
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
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. It is here only stated that the severest penalty was incurred by the violation of this day.
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How the passage was read
On Leviticus 23:1-44On Leviticus 23:1-44
The year Israel keeps
This chapter is the calendar of the whole Jewish year, and every feast in it is still on the calendar today. In order: the weekly Sabbath; Passover and Unleavened Bread in spring (now kept as the seder meal and a week without leavened bread); Firstfruits (the first sheaf of barley waved before God); Weeks, in Hebrew Shavuot, fifty days later (Christians know the Greek name: Pentecost); then in autumn the Day of Trumpets (now Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year, announced by the ram's-horn trumpet called a shofar), the Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur, the great fast), and Tabernacles, in Hebrew Sukkot, when families still build and eat in leafy backyard booths for a week, remembering the wilderness.
So when the New Testament says Jesus or Paul went up for “the feast,” it means one of these appointments: the same calendar, kept for over three thousand years.
This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.
Sources: The Feasts of the LORD (this site's study of all seven) · Mishnah Rosh Hashanah 1:1 (the four new years)
The words behind it
11 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| כִּ֤י | ki | if | H3588 → | 4482 times |
| כָל־ | khol- | any | H3605 → | 5413 times |
| הַנֶּ֙פֶשׁ֙ | hanefesh | <the> person | H5315 → | 754 times |
| אֲשֶׁ֣ר | ʾasher | who | H834 → | 5497 times |
| לֹֽא־ | lo'- | not | H3808 → | 5168 times |
| תְעֻנֶּ֔ה | teuneh | it will humble [itself] | H6031 → | 82 times |
| בְּעֶ֖צֶם | beetzem | on [the] substance of | H6106 → | 126 times |
| הַיּ֣וֹם | haiyom | the day | H3117 → | 2304 times |
| הַזֶּ֑ה | hazeh | <the> this | H2088 → | 1180 times |
| וְנִכְרְתָ֖ה | venikhretah | and it will be cut off | H3772 → | 288 times |
| מֵֽעַמֶּֽיהָ׃ | meameiha | from kinspeople<s> its | H5971 → | 1873 times |
כִּ֤יif
kiH3588 →4482 times
כָל־any
khol-H3605 →5413 times
הַנֶּ֙פֶשׁ֙<the> person
hanefeshH5315 →754 times
אֲשֶׁ֣רwho
ʾasherH834 →5497 times
לֹֽא־not
lo'-H3808 →5168 times
תְעֻנֶּ֔הit will humble [itself]
teunehH6031 →82 times
בְּעֶ֖צֶםon [the] substance of
beetzemH6106 →126 times
הַיּ֣וֹםthe day
haiyomH3117 →2304 times
הַזֶּ֑ה<the> this
hazehH2088 →1180 times
וְנִכְרְתָ֖הand it will be cut off
venikhretahH3772 →288 times
מֵֽעַמֶּֽיהָ׃from kinspeople<s> its
meameihaH5971 →1873 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Leviticus 23:27“The tenth day of this seventh month is the Day of Atonement. You shall hold a sacred assembly and humble yourselves, and present an offering made by fire to the LORD.
it leads to
- Leviticus 16:29–31
This is to be a permanent statute for you: On the tenth day of the seventh month, you shall humble yourselves and not do any work—whether the native or the foreigner who resides among…
- Exodus 30:10
Once a year Aaron shall make atonement on the horns of the altar. Throughout your generations he shall make atonement on it annually with the blood of the sin offering of atonement. The altar…
- Numbers 29:7–11
On the tenth day of this seventh month, you are to hold a sacred assembly, and you shall humble yourselves; you must not do any work.
- Leviticus 16:24
He is to bathe himself with water in a holy place and put on his own clothes. Then he must go out and sacrifice his burnt offering and the people’s burnt offering to make…
- Isaiah 58:5
Is this the fast I have chosen: a day for a man to deny himself, to bow his head like a reed, and to spread out sackcloth and ashes? Will you call this a…
- Leviticus 16:29–31
Through
Genesis 17:14But if any male is not circumcised, he will be cut off from his people; he has broken My covenant.”
it leads to
- Exodus 4:24–26
Now at a lodging place along the way, the LORD met Moses and was about to kill him.
- Exodus 4:24–26
Through
Ezekiel 7:16The survivors will escape and live in the mountains, moaning like doves of the valley, each for his own iniquity.
it leads to
- Isaiah 59:11
We all growl like bears and moan like doves. We hope for justice, but find none, for salvation, but it is far from us.
- Isaiah 59:11
Through
Numbers 5:2“Command the Israelites to send away from the camp anyone with a skin disease, anyone who has a bodily discharge, and anyone who is defiled by a dead body.
it leads to
- Leviticus 13:46
As long as he has the infection, he remains unclean. He must live alone in a place outside the camp.
- Leviticus 13:46
Where this verse is studied
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About Leviticus
This page draws on Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.