Matthew Poole and continuators on Numbers 29

1 AND in the seventh month , on the first day of the month, ye shall have an holy convocation, Ye shall do no servile work: it is a day of blowing the trumpets unto you.

So it was in their Ecclesiastical account, in which the moneth Abib was the first: but as to civil matters this was the first moneth.

Whereby the people were admonished solemnly to prepare themselves for the feasts, which were as many in this moneth, as in all the year besides.

Marginal references: Lev. 23. 2▪

2 And ye shall offer a burnt-offering for a sweet savour unto the LORD, one young bullock, one ram, and seven lambs of the first year without blemish.

Besides the offerings of every moneth and day, as is expressed ver. 6.

6 Beside the burnt-offering of the month , and his meat-offering, and the daily burnt-offering, and his meat-offering, and their drink-offerings according to their manner for a sweet savour, a sacrifice made by fire unto the LORD.

Belonging to every new moon, of which see Numb. 28. 11, 12. 2 Chron. 2. 4.

According to the order, rites and ceremonies appointed by God.

Marginal references: chap. 28. [illegible: 1+ letters] ▪; chap. 28. [illegible: 1+ letters] ▪

7 And ye shall have on the tenth day of this seventh month an holy convocation; and ye shall afflict your souls : ye shall not do any work therein.

(i. e.) Your selves, by fasting and abstinence from all delightful things, and by compunction and bitter sorrow for your sins and the judgments of God either deserved by you or inflicted upon you for your sins. See Levit. 16. 29, 30. and 23. 27.

Marginal references: Lev. 16. [illegible: 1+ letters] ▪ and 23. 2[illegible: 1+ letters] ▪

11 One kid of the goats for a sin-offering, beside the sin-offering of atonement , and the continual burnt-offering, and the meat-offering of it, and their drink-offerings.

By which the High-priest made atonement, of which see Lev. 16. 9, 29, 30.

Marginal references: Lev. 16. 3[illegible: 1+ letters] ▪

12 And on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, ye shall have an holy convocation, ye shall do no servile work, and ye shall keep a feast unto the LORD seven dayes .

The feast of booths, of which see Lev. 23. 34, 35. Deut. 16. 13.

Not by abstaining so long from all servile works, but by offering extraordinary sacrifices each day.

Marginal references: Lev. 23. 3[illegible: 1+ letters] ▪

13 And ye shall offer a burnt-offering, a sacrifice made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD, thirteen young bullocks , two rams and fourteen lambs of the first year: they shall be without blemish.

More sacrifices than at any other feast, partly because this feast was in the close of the year, when it was meet to supply the defects of the year past, and when they had gathered in all their fruits, Deut. 16. 13, 15. and therefore ought to make the larger returns and acknowledgment to God; partly because it was Gods pleasure so to order it, for reasons known to himself, in whose will we ought to acquiesce. And the same reason holds why these sacrifices grew fewer and fewer every day.

More sacrifices than at any other feast, partly because this feast was in the close of the year, when it was meet to supply the defects of the year past, and when they had gathered in all their fruits, Deut. 16. 13, 15. and therefore ought to make the larger returns and acknowledgment to God; partly because it was Gods pleasure so to order it, for reasons known to himself, in whose will we ought to acquiesce. And the same reason holds why these sacrifices grew fewer and fewer every day.

Marginal references: Ezra 3. [illegible: 1+ letters] ▪

18 And their meat-offering, and their drinkofferings, for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the manner :

Of which see for meat-offerings, ver. 3, 4, 9, 10. and for drink-offerings, Numb. 28. 7, 14.

36 But ye shall offer a burnt-offering, a sacrifice made by fire of a sweet savour unto the LORD, one bullock, one ram, seven lambs of the first year without blemish:

This was the last and great day of the feast, as it is called, Io[illegible: 1+ letters]. 7. 37. and yet the sacrifices were fewer than any other day, to teach them not to trust to the multitude of their sacrifices, nor to expect remission of sins from them, but from the one and onely sacrifice of Christ.

39 These things ye shall do unto the LORD, in your set feasts, besides your vows, and your free-will-offerings , for your burnt-offerings, and for your meat-offerings, and for your drinkofferings, and for your peace-offerings.

Your ordinary sacrifices shall not be omitted because of the extraordinary, which ye offer on special occasions.

Marginal references: offer.; Lev. 7. 11, 16.