1And 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.
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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. …
Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound: they shall walk, O LORD, in the light of thy countenance.
How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher? …
And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. …
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-11)There were more sacred solemnities in the seventh month than in any other month of the year, not only because it had been the first month till the deliverance of Israel out of Egypt (which, falling in the month Abib, occasioned that to be thenceforth made the beginning of the months in all ecclesiastical computations), but because still it continued the first month in the civil reckonings of the j…
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