Leviticus 23:27
in Leviticus 23“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.
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ASV
Howbeit on the tenth day of this seventh month is the day of atonement: it shall be a holy convocation unto you, and ye shall afflict your souls; and ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto Jehovah.
KJV
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.
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This verse in Leviticus 23
Commentary
6 notes on this verseA commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
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.
This site's exposition
The tenth day of this seventh month
on Leviticus 23:27-28
Chapter 16 arrives in the calendar as a date, with none of its goats, blood or linen garments repeated. The people are handed only a day to afflict their souls and an order to do no work.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices
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.
Also on the tenth day of this seventh month,....
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
18 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| אַ֡ךְ | ʾakh | surely | H389 → | 161 times |
| בֶּעָשׂ֣וֹר | beasor | on the ten | H6218 → | 16 times |
| לַחֹדֶשׁ֩ | lachodesh | of the month | H2320 → | 284 times |
| הַשְּׁבִיעִ֨י | hashevii | <the> seventh | H7637 → | 98 times |
| הַזֶּ֜ה | hazeh | <the> this | H2088 → | 1180 times |
| י֧וֹם | yom | [is] [the] day of | H3117 → | 2304 times |
| הַכִּפֻּרִ֣ים | hakipurim | <the> atonement<s> | H3725 → | 8 times |
| ה֗וּא | hu' | it | H1931 → | 1879 times |
| מִֽקְרָא־ | mikra'- | a convocation of | H4744 → | 23 times |
| קֹ֙דֶשׁ֙ | kodesh | holiness | H6944 → | 469 times |
| יִהְיֶ֣ה | yihyeh | it will be | H1961 → | 3559 times |
| לָכֶ֔ם | lakhem | to <the> you | ||
| וְעִנִּיתֶ֖ם | veinitem | and you will afflict | H6031 → | 82 times |
| אֶת־ | ʾet- | <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| נַפְשֹׁתֵיכֶ֑ם | nafshoteikhem | selves your | H5315 → | 754 times |
| וְהִקְרַבְתֶּ֥ם | vehikravtem | and you will present | H7126 → | 280 times |
| אִשֶּׁ֖ה | ʾisheh | a fire offering | H801 → | 65 times |
| לַיהוָֽה׃ | layahweh | to Yahweh | H3068 → | 6520 times |
אַ֡ךְsurely
ʾakhH389 →161 times
בֶּעָשׂ֣וֹרon the ten
beasorH6218 →16 times
לַחֹדֶשׁ֩of the month
lachodeshH2320 →284 times
הַשְּׁבִיעִ֨י<the> seventh
hasheviiH7637 →98 times
הַזֶּ֜ה<the> this
hazehH2088 →1180 times
י֧וֹם[is] [the] day of
yomH3117 →2304 times
הַכִּפֻּרִ֣ים<the> atonement<s>
hakipurimH3725 →8 times
ה֗וּאit
hu'H1931 →1879 times
מִֽקְרָא־a convocation of
mikra'-H4744 →23 times
קֹ֙דֶשׁ֙holiness
kodeshH6944 →469 times
יִהְיֶ֣הit will be
yihyehH1961 →3559 times
לָכֶ֔םto <the> you
lakhem
וְעִנִּיתֶ֖םand you will afflict
veinitemH6031 →82 times
אֶת־<obj.>
ʾet-H853 →10935 times
נַפְשֹׁתֵיכֶ֑םselves your
nafshoteikhemH5315 →754 times
וְהִקְרַבְתֶּ֥םand you will present
vehikravtemH7126 →280 times
אִשֶּׁ֖הa fire offering
ʾishehH801 →65 times
לַיהוָֽה׃to Yahweh
layahwehH3068 →6520 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 16:15Aaron shall then slaughter the goat for the sin offering for the people and bring its blood behind the veil, and with its blood he must do as he did with the bull’s blood:…
it leads to
- Hebrews 9:7
But only the high priest entered the second room, and then only once a year, and never without blood, which he offered for himself and for the sins the people had committed in ignorance.
- Hebrews 2:17
For this reason He had to be made like His brothers in every way, so that He might become a merciful and faithful high priest in service to God, in order to make atonement…
- Hebrews 9:7
Through
Exodus 30:10Once 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…
it leads to
- Leviticus 16:18
Then he shall go out to the altar that is before the LORD and make atonement for it. He is to take some of the bull’s blood and some of the goat’s blood and…
- Hebrews 9:22–23
According to the law, in fact, nearly everything must be purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.
- Exodus 29:36–37
Sacrifice a bull as a sin offering each day for atonement. Purify the altar by making atonement for it, and anoint it to consecrate it.
- Leviticus 16:5–6
And he shall take from the congregation of Israel two male goats for a sin offering and one ram for a burnt offering.
- Leviticus 16:29–30
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…
- Leviticus 16:18
Through
Leviticus 16:24He 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…
it leads to
- Leviticus 16:3–5
This is how Aaron is to enter the Holy Place: with a young bull for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering.
- Leviticus 16:3–5
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This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; 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.
