Paul Kretzmann Commentary - Leviticus 23:26 - 23:32

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Paul Kretzmann Commentary - Leviticus 23:26 - 23:32


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The Day of Atonement

v. 26. And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,


v. 27. Also on the tenth day of this seventh month,
the seventh month of the church-year, known as Tishri, there shall be a day of atonement; it shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall afflict your souls, show the grief and mourning which you feel on account of your sins by a complete fast, and offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord. Cf Leviticus 16. The offerings are specified in detail Num_29:8-11.

v. 28. And ye shall do no work in that same day; for it is a day of atonement, to make an atonement for you before the Lord, your God,
the annual restoration of the relation between the covenant God and His people by the sprinkling of blood in the Most Holy Place.

v. 29. For whatsoever soul it be that shall not be afflicted in that same day,
not join the rest of the people in the fasting which showed the intensity of their mourning, he shall be cut off from among his people.

v. 30. And whatsoever soul it be that doeth any work in that same day, the same soul will I destroy from among his people,
for the strictest form of Sabbath rest was here demanded.

v. 31. Ye shall do no manner of work; it shall be a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

v. 32. It shall be unto you a Sabbath of rest, and ye shall afflict your souls. In the ninth day of the month at even, from even unto even, shall ye celebrate your Sabbath.
The exact length of the fast is specified, and the great rigor is to be noted with which the penalty of death was held forth for every transgression against the rest of the Sabbath and against the fast. The children of Israel mere to be made conscious, at least to some extent, of the heinousness and of the guilt of sin, that they might enter upon the celebration of the Day of Atonement with hearts full of genuine repentance.