Matthew Poole and continuators on Numbers 29:1

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▪