Leviticus 23:26-29

The Day of Atonement

23:26 The Lord spoke to Moses: 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 

[23:27]  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.”

[23:27]  ² sn See the description of this day and its regulations in Lev 16 and the notes there.

[23:27]  ³ tn Heb “you shall humble your souls.” See the note on Lev 16:29 above.

[23:28]  ¹ tn Heb “in the bone of this day.”

[23:28]  ² tn Heb “on you [plural]”; cf. NASB, NRSV “on your behalf.”

[23:29]  ¹ tn The particular כִּי (ki) is taken in an asseverative sense here (“Indeed,” see the NJPS translation).

[23:29]  ² tn Heb “it [i.e., that person; literally “soul,” feminine] shall be cut off from its peoples [plural]”; NLT “from the community.”