Num 29 | TNotes | STEP | Summary for Num 29:1-6: 29:1-6 the Festival of Trumpets: See also Lev 23:23-25 .

Summary for Num 29:1-6: 29:1-6 ^a the Festival of Trumpets: See also Lev 23:23-25 ^b.
Summary for Num 29:7-11: 29:7-11 ^c The Day of Atonement was a solemn occasion, a day of fasting (see also Lev 16 ^d; 23:26-32 ^e; Rom 3:23-25 ^f; Heb 9:7-12 ^g, 23-28 ^h). 29:7 ⁱ Ten days later, on the tenth day of the same month: It is celebrated today as Yom Kippur (from Hebrew yom hakkippurim, Lev 23:27 ^j).
Summary for Num 29:12-38: 29:12-38 ^k The Festival of Shelters began on the fifteenth day of the seventh month. It was an eight-day harvest celebration (29:12 ^l, 35 ^m; Exod 34:22 ⁿ) that required an enormous number of offerings. This harvest festival was an especially joyous occasion and a time for thanksgiving (see Neh 8:13-18 ^o). The shelters also reminded the Israelites of dwelling in tents during their wilderness sojourn (see also Lev 23:33-43 ^p; 1 Kgs 8:1-2 ^q).
29:39 ^r Public offerings were supplemented by a variety of voluntary individual gifts (cp. Lev 23:38 ^s).