Numbers 29:1-31:54

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 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 civil reckonings of the jubilees and years of release, and also because it was the time of vacation between harvest and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 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 Leviticus 23:24 , ye shall do no servile work ; therefore, in the place referred to, is called a sabbath: it is a day of blowing the trumpets unto you ; of which; see Gill... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Numbers 29:1

And in the seventh month, etc. - This was the beginning of their civil year, and was a time of great festivity, and was ushered in by the blowing of trumpets. It answers to a part of our September. In imitation of the Jews different nations began their new year with sacrifices and festivity. The ancient Egyptians did so; and the Persians still celebrate their nawi rooz , or new year's day, which they hold on the vernal equinox. The first day of the year is generally a time of festivity in... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Numbers 29:1

Verse 1 1And 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. Because it was a minor festival, Moses only commands one bullock to be killed; but the number was increased on other grounds, for we have already seen that on the first of every month two bullocks were... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Numbers 29:1-6

The ordinance of the Feast of Trumpets was to be observed on the opening day of that month within which the great Day of the Atonement and the Feast of Tabernacles fell (compare Leviticus 23:23 ff). The special offering for the day anticipated that of the great Day of Atonement. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Numbers 29:1

Numbers 29:1. The sixth national sacrifice, which was also annual, was to be performed on the festival of trumpets, upon the first day of the seventh month of the ecclesiastical year, being the first month of the civil year, answering to our September. It was to be kept in the manner of a sabbath, with great rejoicings, solemn worship, and abstinence from all common labour, in order to usher in the new year. See Leviticus 23:24. read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Numbers 29:1-40

Amounts for the yearly offerings (28:1-29:40)As the time drew near for the Israelites to settle in their new land, Moses stressed the need for constant devotion to God through the various sacrifices and festivals. First there were to be daily burnt offerings and cereal offerings, morning and evening. The fire on the altar was never to go out (28:1-8; see notes on Leviticus 6:8-13,Leviticus 6:19-23).Besides this daily offering there was an identical weekly offering every Sabbath (9-10). Also... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Numbers 29:1

seventh month. Hebrew name Tisri not known in Scripture (our Sept. - Oct.) The old civil year went out (Exodus 23:16 ; Exodus 34:22 ), known as Ethanim (1 Kings 8:2 ). Tisri = the first month of civil year. Nisan, or Abib = the first month of sacred year. servile = laborious. blowing the trumpets. Compare Leviticus 23:24 . read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Numbers 29:1

THE SEVENTH MONTH OF RELIGIOUS YEAR"And in the seventh month, on the first day of the month, ye shall have a holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work: it is a day of blowing of trumpets unto you. And ye shall offer a burnt-offering for a sweet savor unto Jehovah: one young bullock, one ram, seven he-lambs a year old without blemish; and their meal offering, fine flour mingled with oil, three tenth parts for the bullock, two tenth parts for the ram, and one tenth part for every lamb of the... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Numbers 29:1

Numbers 29:1. In the seventh month, &c.— Before their departure from Egypt, this was the first day of the first month of the ecclesiastical year; but now the first day of the seventh month of that year: but it was the first month of the civil year, and answered to our September. See Vignoles Chronol. lib. 3: cap. 1: sect. 3.Exodus 12:2; Exodus 12:2. Dr. Beaumont observes, respecting the blowing of the trumpets, that hereby was figured the preaching of repentance and belief in Christ, Isaiah... read more

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