1 In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall have a holy convocation; you shall do no servile work: it is a day of blowing of trumpets to you.
2 You shall offer a burnt offering for a sweet savor to Yahweh: one young bull, one ram, seven he-lambs a year old without blemish;
3 and their meal-offering, fine flour mixed with oil, three tenth parts for the bull, two tenth parts for the ram,
4 and one tenth part for every lamb of the seven lambs;
5 and one male goat for a sin-offering, to make atonement for you;
6 besides the burnt offering of the new moon, and the meal-offering of it, and the continual burnt offering and the meal-offering of it, and their drink-offerings, according to their ordinance, for a sweet savor, an offering made by fire to Yahweh.
7 On the tenth day of this seventh month you shall have a holy convocation; and you shall afflict your souls: you shall do no manner of work;
8 but you shall offer a burnt offering to Yahweh for a sweet savor: one young bull, one ram, seven he-lambs a year old; they shall be to you without blemish;
9 and their meal-offering, fine flour mixed with oil, three tenth parts for the bull, two tenth parts for the one ram,
10 a tenth part for every lamb of the seven lambs:
11 one male goat for a sin-offering; besides the sin-offering of atonement, and the continual burnt offering, and the meal-offering of it, and their drink-offerings.
12 On the fifteenth day of the seventh month you shall have a holy convocation; you shall do no servile work, and you shall keep a feast to Yahweh seven days:
13 and you shall offer a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor to Yahweh; thirteen young bulls, two rams, fourteen he-lambs a year old; they shall be without blemish;
14 and their meal-offering, fine flour mixed with oil, three tenth parts for every bull of the thirteen bulls, two tenth parts for each ram of the two rams,
15 and a tenth part for every lamb of the fourteen lambs;
16 and one male goat for a sin-offering, besides the continual burnt offering, the meal-offering of it, and the drink-offering of it.
17 On the second day [you shall offer] twelve young bulls, two rams, fourteen he-lambs a year old without blemish;
18 and their meal-offering and their drink-offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance;
19 and one male goat for a sin-offering; besides the continual burnt offering, and the meal-offering of it, and their drink-offerings.
20 On the third day eleven bulls, two rams, fourteen he-lambs a year old without blemish;
21 and their meal-offering and their drink-offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance;
22 and one male goat for a sin-offering; besides the continual burnt offering, and the meal-offering of it, and the drink-offering of it.
23 On the fourth day ten bulls, two rams, fourteen he-lambs a year old without blemish;
24 their meal-offering and their drink-offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance;
25 and one male goat for a sin-offering; besides the continual burnt offering, the meal-offering of it, and the drink-offering of it.
26 On the fifth day nine bulls, two rams, fourteen he-lambs a year old without blemish;
27 and their meal-offering and their drink-offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance;
28 and one male goat for a sin-offering, besides the continual burnt offering, and the meal-offering of it, and the drink-offering of it.
29 On the sixth day eight bulls, two rams, fourteen he-lambs a year old without blemish;
30 and their meal-offering and their drink-offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance;
31 and one male goat for a sin-offering; besides the continual burnt offering, the meal-offering of it, and the drink-offerings of it.
32 On the seventh day seven bulls, two rams, fourteen he-lambs a year old without blemish;
33 and their meal-offering and their drink-offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance;
34 and one male goat for a sin-offering; besides the continual burnt offering, the meal-offering of it, and the drink-offering of it.
35 On the eighth day you shall have a solemn assembly: you shall do no servile work;
36 but you shall offer a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor to Yahweh: one bull, one ram, seven he-lambs a year old without blemish;
37 their meal-offering and their drink-offerings for the bull, for the ram, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the ordinance:
38 and one male goat for a sin-offering, besides the continual burnt offering, and the meal-offering of it, and the drink-offering of it.
39 These you shall offer to Yahweh in your set feasts, besides your vows, and your freewill-offerings, for your burnt offerings, and for your meal-offerings, and for your drink-offerings, and for your peace-offerings.
40 Moses told the children of Israel according to all that Yahweh commanded Moses.
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Commentary on Numbers 29 Matthew Henry Commentary
Chapter 29
This chapter appoints the offerings that were to be made by fire unto the Lord in the three great solemnities of the seventh month.
Num 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 civil reckonings of the jubilees and years of release, and also because it was the time of vacation between harvest and seedtime, when they had most leisure to attend the sanctuary, which intimates that, though God will dispense with sacrifices in consideration of works of necessity and mercy, yet the more leisure we have from the pressing occasions of this life the more time we should spend in the immediate service of God.
Num 29:12-40
Soon after the day of atonement, that day in which men were to afflict their souls, followed the feast of tabernacles, in which they were to rejoice before the Lord; for those that sow in tears shall soon reap in joy. To the former laws about this feast, which we had, Lev. 23:34, etc., here are added directions about the offerings by fire, which they were to offer unto the Lord during the seven days of that feast, Lev. 23:36. Observe here,