Leviticus 23:24
in Leviticus 23“Speak to the Israelites and say, ‘On the first day of the seventh month you are to have a day of rest, a sacred assembly announced by trumpet blasts.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, shall be a solemn rest unto you, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, a holy convocation.
KJV
Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, in the first day of the month, shall ye have a sabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, an holy convocation.
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This verse in Leviticus 23
Commentary
6 notes on this verseA memorial of blowing of trumpets - This is generally called the feast of trumpets; and as it took place on the first day of the seventh month, Tisri, which answers to September, which month was the commencement of what was called the civil year, the feast probably had no other design than to celebrate the commencement of that year, if indeed such a distinction obtained among the ancient Jews. See the note on Exo 12:2. Some think creation began at this time.
This site's exposition
On the first day of the seventh month
on Leviticus 23:24-26
The seventh month opens with a day of trumpet blasts, and the text does not say what it marks. Every other appointed time is tied to a harvest, a rite or the exodus, but this one has only a sound and a date.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices
It was typical of the preaching of the gospel, by which joyful sound souls were to be called in to serve God and keep a spiritual feast to him. The conversion of the nations to the faith of Christ is said to be by the blowing of a great trumpet, Isa. xxvii. A repetition of the law of the day of atonement, that is, so much of it as concerned the people.
And by this sounding of the trumpets in its beginning, God would quicken and prepare them for the following sabbaths, as well as that of atonement and humiliation for their sins, as those of thanksgiving for God's mercies.
Speak unto the children of Israel,....
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
proposed
A sabbath - Here and in Lev 23:39 a word which should rather be rendered a sabbatical rest. Blowing of trumpets - Here and in Num 29:1, literally “shouting”. There is no mention of trumpets in the Hebrew text of the Law in connection with the day. However, there is no reason to doubt the tradition that the day was distinguished by a general blowing of trumpets throughout the land, and that the kind of trumpet generally used for the purpose was the curved horn of an animal or a cornet of metal, such as was used at Sinai Exo 19:16, and on the Day of Jubilee Lev 25:9. It must have differed in this respect from the ordinary festival of the New moon when the long straight trumpet of the temple alone was blown (Num 10:2; Exo 25:23; see cut). Seventh month - Called by the Jews in later times it was called Tisri, but in the Old Testament Ethanim, 1Ki 8:2. According to the uniform voice of tradition “the first day” of this month was the first day of the Civil year in use before the Exodus, and was observed as the festival of the New year. Some have viewed it as a commemoration of the Creation of the world Job 38:7: others, as the anniversary of the giving of the Law.
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
16 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| דַּבֵּ֛ר | daber | speak | H1696 → | 1141 times |
| אֶל־ | ʾel- | to | H413 → | 5510 times |
| בְּנֵ֥י | benei | [the] people of | H1121 → | 4930 times |
| יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל | yisrael | Israel | H3478 → | 2507 times |
| לֵאמֹ֑ר | lemor | <to> saying | H559 → | 5305 times |
| בַּחֹ֨דֶשׁ | bachodesh | in the month | H2320 → | 284 times |
| הַשְּׁבִיעִ֜י | hashevii | <the> seventh | H7637 → | 98 times |
| בְּאֶחָ֣ד | beechad | on [day] one | H259 → | 971 times |
| לַחֹ֗דֶשׁ | lachodesh | of the month | H2320 → | 284 times |
| יִהְיֶ֤ה | yihyeh | it will be | H1961 → | 3559 times |
| לָכֶם֙ | lakhem | to <the> you | ||
| שַׁבָּת֔וֹן | shabaton | a sabbath observance | H7677 → | 11 times |
| זִכְר֥וֹן | zikhron | a remembrance of | H2146 → | |
| תְּרוּעָ֖ה | teruah | a sound of a loud blast | H8643 → | |
| מִקְרָא־ | mikra'- | a convocation of | H4744 → | 23 times |
| קֹֽדֶשׁ׃ | kodesh | holiness | H6944 → | 469 times |
דַּבֵּ֛רspeak
daberH1696 →1141 times
אֶל־to
ʾel-H413 →5510 times
בְּנֵ֥י[the] people of
beneiH1121 →4930 times
יִשְׂרָאֵ֖לIsrael
yisraelH3478 →2507 times
לֵאמֹ֑ר<to> saying
lemorH559 →5305 times
בַּחֹ֨דֶשׁin the month
bachodeshH2320 →284 times
הַשְּׁבִיעִ֜י<the> seventh
hasheviiH7637 →98 times
בְּאֶחָ֣דon [day] one
beechadH259 →971 times
לַחֹ֗דֶשׁof the month
lachodeshH2320 →284 times
יִהְיֶ֤הit will be
yihyehH1961 →3559 times
לָכֶם֙to <the> you
lakhem
שַׁבָּת֔וֹןa sabbath observance
shabatonH7677 →11 times
זִכְר֥וֹןa remembrance of
zikhronH2146 →
תְּרוּעָ֖הa sound of a loud blast
teruahH8643 →
מִקְרָא־a convocation of
mikra'-H4744 →23 times
קֹֽדֶשׁ׃holiness
kodeshH6944 →469 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
1 Thessalonians 4:16For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a loud command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will be the first to…
it leads to
- 1 Corinthians 15:51–52
Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed—
- Revelation 1:7
Behold, He is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see Him—even those who pierced Him. And all the tribes of the earth will mourn because of Him. So shall it be! Amen.
- Matthew 24:30–31
At that time the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven, and all the tribes of the earth will mourn. They will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds…
- 1 Corinthians 15:23
But each in his own turn: Christ the firstfruits; then at His coming, those who belong to Him.
- Matthew 16:27
For the Son of Man will come in His Father’s glory with His angels, and then He will repay each one according to what he has done.
- 1 Corinthians 15:51–52
Through
1 Corinthians 15:52in an instant, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.
it leads to
- 1 Thessalonians 4:16–17
For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a loud command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will be the first to…
- Matthew 24:31
And He will send out His angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather His elect from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other.
- John 5:28
Do not be amazed at this, for the hour is coming when all who are in their graves will hear His voice
- 1 Thessalonians 4:16–17
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About Leviticus
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.