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John Gill - Exposition

John Gill

INTRODUCTION TO Numbers 29 In this chapter an account is given of the various offerings on the several remarkable days in the seventh month of the year; at the feast of blowing the trumpets on the first day of the month, Numbers 29:1, at the great fast or day of atonement, which was the tenth of the month, Numbers 29:7, and at the feast of tabernacles, which began on the fifteenth day of the same...

John Gill - Exposition

John Gill

These things ye shall do to the Lord, in your set feasts,.... Or rather in the times set and appointed to you, as the Jewish writers (o) interpret it; and so Jarchi interprets it of a fixed time, which seems better; since these were not all feast days, on which the above sacrifices were to be offered, for one of them was a fast, even the day of atonement: besides your vows, and your freewill...

Matthew Henry - Complete Commentary

Matthew Henry

This chapter appoints the offerings that were to be made by fire unto the Lord in the three great solemnities of the seventh month. I. In the feast of trumpets on the first day of that month, ver. 1-6. II. In the day of atonement on the tenth day, ver. 7-11. III. In the feast of tabernacles on the fifteenth day and the seven days following, ver. 12-38. And then the conclusion of these ordinances,...