John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Numbers 29:7
And ye shall have on the tenth day of the seventh month an holy convocation ,.... The month Tisri, as before; so the Targum of Jonathan: and ye shall afflict your souls ; or persons; their bodies by fasting, and their souls by repentance and humiliation; for this was a grand fast, as it is called Acts 27:9 , ye shall not do any work therein ; see Leviticus 23:28 . read more
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