Numbers 29:1-6

THE OFFERINGS AT THE FEAST OF TRUMPETS, Numbers 29:1-6.

1-6. Seventh month Ethanim, (1 Kings 8:2,) Tisri our September. It was the going out or revolution, the end and beginning of the civil and jubilee year. Exodus 23:16; Exodus 34:22; Leviticus 25:9-10, notes. But to signalize the exode, Abib or March was reckoned the first month of the ecclesiastical or ritual year, and Tisri became the seventh month of the same calendar. The feasts were reckoned according to this new calendar. Exodus 12:2; Leviticus 23:24, notes.

Blowing the trumpets For their form and the design of the signal see Leviticus 23:23-25, notes. Three sets of offerings were made on this day: (1) the daily or continual; (2) the ordinary monthly; and (3) the special seventh month sacrifices, making in all twenty-three victims; and, if this day was the sabbath, two lambs were added. Leviticus 23:25, note; Numbers 28:9-10.

Their manner Prescribed order. See Introduction to Leviticus, (Numbers 29:5.)