Leviticus 23:27-32

23:27 “The ¹  tenth day of this seventh month is the Day of Atonement. ²  It is to be a holy assembly for you, and you must humble yourselves ³  and present a gift to the Lord. 23:28 You must not do any work on this particular day, ⁴  because it is a day of atonement to make atonement for yourselves ⁵  before the Lord your God. 23:29 Indeed, ⁶  any person who does not behave with humility on this particular day will be cut off from his people. ⁷  23:30 As for any person ⁸  who does any work on this particular day, I will exterminate ⁹  that person from the midst of his people! ¹⁰  23:31 You must not do any work. This is a perpetual statute throughout your generations ¹¹  in all the places where you live. 23:32 It is a Sabbath of complete rest for you, and you must humble yourselves on the ninth day of the month in the evening, from evening until evening you must observe your Sabbath.” ¹² 

Exodus 30:10

30:10 Aaron is to make atonement on its horns once in the year with some of the blood of the sin offering for atonement; ¹³  once in the year ¹⁴  he is to make atonement on it throughout your generations. It is most holy to the Lord.” ¹⁵ 

Numbers 29:7

The Day of Atonement

29:7 “‘On the tenth day of this seventh month you are to have a holy assembly. You must humble yourselves; ¹⁶  you must not do any work on it.

Numbers 29:1

Blowing Trumpets

29:1 “‘On the first day of the seventh month, you are to hold a holy assembly. You must not do your ordinary work, for it is a day of blowing trumpets for you.

Numbers 8:2

8:2 “Speak to Aaron and tell him, ‘When you set up ¹⁷  the lamps, the seven lamps are to give light ¹⁸  in front of the lampstand.’”

Ezra 3:1

The Altar is Rebuilt

3:1 When the seventh month arrived and the Israelites ¹⁹  were living ²⁰  in their ²¹  towns, the people assembled ²²  in ²³  Jerusalem. ²⁴ 

¹ tn Heb “Surely the tenth day” or perhaps “Precisely the tenth day.” The Hebrew adverbial particle אַךְ (’akh) is left untranslated by most recent English versions; cf. however NASB “On exactly the tenth day.”

² sn See the description of this day and its regulations in Lev 16 and the notes there.

³ tn Heb “you shall humble your souls.” See the note on Lev 16:29 above.

⁴ tn Heb “in the bone of this day.”

⁵ tn Heb “on you [plural]”; cf. NASB, NRSV “on your behalf.”

⁶ tn The particular כִּי (ki) is taken in an asseverative sense here (“Indeed,” see the NJPS translation).

⁷ tn Heb “it [i.e., that person; literally “soul,” feminine] shall be cut off from its peoples [plural]”; NLT “from the community.”

⁸ tn Heb “And any person.”

⁹ tn See HALOT 3 s.v. I אבד hif. Cf. KJV, NASB, NIV, NRSV, NLT “destroy”; CEV “wipe out.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “its people” (“its” is feminine to agree with “person,” literally “soul,” which is feminine in Hebrew; cf. v. 29).

¹¹ tn Heb “for your generations.”

¹² tn Heb “you shall rest your Sabbath.”

¹³ tn The word “atonements” (plural in Hebrew) is a genitive showing the result or product of the sacrifice made.

¹⁴ sn This ruling presupposes that the instruction for the Day of Atonement has been given, or at the very least, is to be given shortly. That is the one day of the year that all sin and all ritual impurity would be removed.

¹⁵ sn The phrase “most holy to the Lord” means that the altar cannot be used for any other purpose than what is stated here.

¹⁶ tn Heb “afflict yourselves”; NAB “mortify yourselves”; NIV, NRSV “deny yourselves.”

¹⁷ tn The verb is עָלָה (’alah). The Hiphil infinitive construct functions in a temporal clause. The idea of arranging the lamps on the lampstand certainly involved raising the lamps and placing them on the tops of each shaft and branch. Some have taken the idea to mean cause the flame to go up, or light the lamps.

¹⁸ tn The imperfect tense forms part of the instruction, and so the translation has to indicate that. The instruction would seem obvious, but the light was to shine in the area immediately in front of the lampstand, so that it would illumine the way and illumine the table that was across the room (hence, “in front of”).

¹⁹ tn Heb “the sons of Israel.”

²⁰ tn The word “living” is not in the Hebrew text, but is implied. Some translations supply “settled” (cf. NAB, NIV, NLT).

²¹ tc The translation reads with some medieval Hebrew MSS and ancient versions בְּעָרֵיהֶם (be’arehem, “in their towns”), rather than the reading בֶּעָרִים (be’arim, “in the towns”) found in the MT. Cf. Neh 7:72 HT [7:73 ET].

²² tn The Hebrew text adds the phrase “like one man.” This has not been included in the translation for stylistic reasons.

²³ tn Heb “to.”

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