Numbers 29:1 (BSB)
“On the first day of the seventh month, you are to hold a sacred assembly, and you must not do any regular work. This will be a day for you to sound the trumpets.
From Numbers 29. Also in the ESV.
Commentary on Numbers 29:1
- John Calvin (Reformed), Calvin's Commentaries on Numbers 29:1: 1 And in the seventh month. I have already observed that the festivals are not here (generally) treated of, but only the sacrifices, by which their solemnization was to be graced. In the beginning of the seventh month was the memorial, as it was called, of the blowing of trumpets.
- Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Numbers 29:1-11: There were more sacred solemnities in the seventh month than in any other month of the year, not only because it had been the first month till the deliverance of Israel out of Egypt (which, falling in the month Abib, occasioned that to be thenceforth made the beginning of the months in all ecclesiastical computations), but because still it continued the first month in the...
- John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Numbers 29:1: 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 Lev 23:24, ye shall do no servile...
- Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Numbers 29:1: And in the seventh month, on the first [day] of the month, ye shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work: it is a day of blowing the trumpets unto you. (a) Which contains part of September, and part of October.