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The Feast of Trumpets
v. 23. And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
v. 24. ,Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, in the first day of the month, shall ye have a Sabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, an holy convocation. It was a feast Sabbath, distinguished from the ordinary new moons, and a Sabbath of memorial. The feature of the day was the sounding of the trumpets, horns, or trombones, which belonged to the equipment of the Sanctuary, Num_10:2.
v. 25. Ye shall do no servile work there in; but ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord. The day was afterward, if not at that time, celebrated as the Sew Year's Day of the civil year, and the solemn assembly marked its prominence, as the Jews said, because it commemorated the creation, when all the sons of God shouted for joy, Job_38:7. The blowing of horns was afterward not confined to the Sanctuary, but was indulged in very generally throughout the land. The burnt offering of the day is specified exactly in Num_29:1-6.