John Gill's Exposition on Leviticus 23:27

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Also on the tenth [day] of this seventh month, etc.] Tisri, the same as before, answering to part of our September, and part of October: [there shall be] a day of atonement; for all the sins of the year past; (see <031629> Leviticus 16:29,30); it shall be an holy convocation unto you: when they should be called together for the exercise of holy duties: and ye shall afflict your souls; their souls, by repentance, contrition, and humiliation for sin, and their bodies by fasting; and, as the Targum of Jonathan paraphrases it, “by abstaining from eating and drinking, and the advantage of bathing and wiping, and the use of the bed and sandals;” hence called the fast, (<442709>Acts 27:9); (see Gill on “<031629>Leviticus 16:29”); and offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord; a burnt offering, of which (see <042908>Numbers 29:8-11).

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