John Gill's Exposition on Leviticus 23:32

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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It [shall be] unto you a sabbath of rest, etc.] (See Gill on “<031631>Leviticus 16:31”); and this is thought by some f830 to be the sabbath spoken of in (<235813>Isaiah 58:13); and ye shall afflict your souls; in the ninth [day] of the month at even; the fast was to begin at the close of the ninth day, and to continue to the end of the tenth; so Maimonides f831: he begins to fast and afflict himself at the evening of the ninth next to the tenth; and so at the going out of it he continues in his affliction a little while of the night of the eleventh, next to the tenth, which is confirmed by what follows: from even unto even shall ye celebrate your sabbath; which some understand of the sabbath in general; but it seems to have a particular respect to the sabbath of the day of atonement, which was to last from the evening of the ninth to the evening of the tenth day.

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