--- title: "Clarke" description: "Verse Numbers 29:1. And in the seventh month, &c. — This was the beginning of their civil year, and was a time of great festivity, and was ushered in" image: "/images/missing.jpg" url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/commentaries/clarkes-commentary/numbers/29" --- Verse [Numbers 29:1](../../../kjv/numbers/29/1). ***And in the seventh month, &c.*** — This was the beginning of their civil year, and was a time of great festivity, and was ushered in by the blowing of trumpets. It answers to a part of our September. In imitation of the Jews different nations began their new year with sacrifices and festivity. The ancient Egyptians did so and the *Persians* still celebrate their [Persian] *nawi rooz*, or *new year's day*, which they hold on the vernal equinox. The first day of the year is generally a time of festivity in all civilized nations. On this day the Israelites offered *one young bullock, one ram, seven lambs*, and a *kid*, for a sin-offering, besides *minchahs* or *meat-offerings*. Verse [Numbers 29:7](../../../kjv/numbers/29/7). ***On the tenth day*** — [Leviticus 16:29](../../../kjv/leviticus/16/29); and *"*[Leviticus 23:24](../../../kjv/leviticus/23/24)*"*. Verse [Numbers 29:12](../../../kjv/numbers/29/12). ***On the fifteenth day of the seventh month*** — On this day there was to be a solemn assembly, and for *seven* days sacrifices were to be offered; on the *first* day thirteen young bullocks, two rams, and fourteen lambs. On each succeeding day one bullock *less*, till on the seventh day there were only *seven*, making in all *seventy*. What an expensive service! How should we magnify God for being delivered from it! Yet these were all the taxes they had to pay. At the public charge there were annually offered to God, independently of trespass-offerings and voluntary vows, fifteen goats, twenty-one kids, seventy-two rams, one hundred and thirty-two bullocks, and eleven hundred and one lambs! But how little is all this when compared with the lambs slain every year at the *passover*, which amounted in one year to the immense number of 255,600 slain in the temple itself, which was the answer that *Cestius*, the Roman general, received when he asked the priests *how many persons* had come to Jerusalem at their annual festivals; the priests, numbering the *people* by the *lambs* that had been slain, said, "twenty-five myriads, five thousand and six hundred." - For an account of the feast of tabernacles, [Leviticus 23:34](../../../kjv/leviticus/23/34). Verse [Numbers 29:35](../../../kjv/numbers/29/35). ***On the eighth day ye shall have a solemn assembly*** — This among the Jews was esteemed the chief or high day of the feast, though fewer sacrifices were offered on it than on the others; the people seem to have finished the solemnity with a greater measure of spiritual devotion, and it was on this day of the feast that our blessed Lord called the Jews from the *letter* to the *spirit* of the law, proposing himself as the sole fountain whence they could derive the streams of salvation, [John 7:37](../../../kjv/john/7/37). On the subject of this chapter see the notes on [Leviticus 12:1-8](../../../kjv/leviticus/12/1-8), [Leviticus 16](../../../kjv/leviticus/16) and [Leviticus 23](../../../kjv/leviticus/23) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#website","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com","name":"Real Bible Believers","description":"RBB","publisher":{"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#/schema/person/e966585dde703268e7f6ae890ea98509"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/search?q={search_term_string}","query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/commentaries/clarkes-commentary/numbers/29#primaryimage","inLanguage":"en-US","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/images/missing.jpg","contentUrl":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/images/missing.jpg","width":640,"height":370,"caption":"Clarke's Commentary - Numbers 29"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/commentaries/clarkes-commentary/numbers/29#webpage","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/commentaries/clarkes-commentary/numbers/29","name":"Clarke's Commentary - Numbers 29","isPartOf":{"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/commentaries/clarkes-commentary/numbers/29#primaryimage"},"datePublished":null,"dateModified":null,"author":{"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#/schema/person/e966585dde703268e7f6ae890ea98509"},"description":"Verse Numbers 29:1. 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