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Numbers 29

Num. 29:1 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And in the seventh
shbiy`iy (Hebrew #7637)
ordinal from 7657; seventh
KJV usage: seventh (time).
Pronounce: sheb-ee-ee'
Origin: or shbi iy {sheb-ee-ee'}
month
chodesh (Hebrew #2320)
the new moon; by implication, a month
KJV usage: month(-ly), new moon.
Pronounce: kho'-desh
Origin: from 2318
, on the first
'echad (Hebrew #259)
properly, united, i.e. one; or (as an ordinal) first
KJV usage: a, alike, alone, altogether, and, any(-thing), apiece, a certain, (dai-)ly, each (one), + eleven, every, few, first, + highway, a man, once, one, only, other, some, together,
Pronounce: ekh-awd'
Origin: a numeral from 258
day of the month
chodesh (Hebrew #2320)
the new moon; by implication, a month
KJV usage: month(-ly), new moon.
Pronounce: kho'-desh
Origin: from 2318
, ye shall have an holy
qodesh (Hebrew #6944)
a sacred place or thing; rarely abstract, sanctity
KJV usage: consecrated (thing), dedicated (thing), hallowed (thing), holiness, (X most) holy (X day, portion, thing), saint, sanctuary.
Pronounce: ko'-desh
Origin: from 6942
convocation
miqra' (Hebrew #4744)
something called out, i.e. a public meeting (the act, the persons, or the place); also a rehearsal
KJV usage: assembly, calling, convocation, reading.
Pronounce: mik-raw'
Origin: from 7121
; ye shall do
`asah (Hebrew #6213)
to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application (as follows)
KJV usage: accomplish, advance, appoint, apt, be at, become, bear, bestow, bring forth, bruise, be busy, X certainly, have the charge of, commit, deal (with), deck, + displease, do, (ready) dress(-ed), (put in) execute(-ion), exercise, fashion, + feast, (fight-)ing man, + finish, fit, fly, follow, fulfill, furnish, gather, get, go about, govern, grant, great, + hinder, hold ((a feast)), X indeed, + be industrious, + journey, keep, labour, maintain, make, be meet, observe, be occupied, offer, + officer, pare, bring (come) to pass, perform, pracise, prepare, procure, provide, put, requite, X sacrifice, serve, set, shew, X sin, spend, X surely, take, X thoroughly, trim, X very, + vex, be (warr-)ior, work(-man), yield, use.
Pronounce: aw-saw'
Origin: a primitive root
no servile
`abodah (Hebrew #5656)
from 5647; work of any kind
KJV usage: act, bondage, + bondservant, effect, labour, ministering(-try), office, service(-ile, -itude), tillage, use, work, X wrought.
Pronounce: ab-o-daw'
Origin: or mabowdah {ab-o-daw'}
work
mla'kah (Hebrew #4399)
properly, deputyship, i.e. ministry; generally, employment (never servile) or work (abstractly or concretely); also property (as the result of labor)
KJV usage: business, + cattle, + industrious, occupation, (+ -pied), + officer, thing (made), use, (manner of) work((-man), -manship).
Pronounce: mel-aw-kaw'
Origin: from the same as 4397
: ito is a day
yowm (Hebrew #3117)
a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an associated term), (often used adverb)
KJV usage: age, + always, + chronicals, continually(-ance), daily, ((birth-), each, to) day, (now a, two) days (agone), + elder, X end, + evening, + (for) ever(-lasting, -more), X full, life, as (so) long as (... live), (even) now, + old, + outlived, + perpetually, presently, + remaineth, X required, season, X since, space, then, (process of) time, + as at other times, + in trouble, weather, (as) when, (a, the, within a) while (that), X whole (+ age), (full) year(-ly), + younger.
Pronounce: yome
Origin: from an unused root meaning to be hot
of blowing
truw`ah (Hebrew #8643)
clamor, i.e. acclamation of joy or a battle-cry; especially clangor of trumpets, as an alarum
KJV usage: alarm, blow(- ing) (of, the) (trumpets), joy, jubile, loud noise, rejoicing, shout(-ing), (high, joyful) sound(-ing).
Pronounce: ter-oo-aw'
Origin: from 7321
the trumpets unto you.
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Lev. 23:24• 24Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, on the first of the month, shall ye have a rest, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, a holy convocation. (Lev. 23:24)
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Psa. 81:3‑4• 3Blow the trumpet at the new moon, at the set time, on our feast day:
 4For this is a statute for Israel, an ordinance of the God of Jacob; (Psa. 81:3‑4)

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Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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1-6:  The offering at the feast of trumpets;
7-11:  at the day of afflicting their souls;
12-40:  and on the eight days of the feast of tabernacles.
the seventh.That is, the month Tisri, the seventh month of their ecclesiastical year, but the first of their civil year, answering to our September.
This, which was their new year's day, was a time of great festivity, and ushered in by the blowing of trumpets; whence it was also called the feast of blowing the trumpets.
In imitation of this Jewish festival, different nations began the new year with sacrifices and festivity.
The ancient Egyptians did so; and the Persians also celebrated their {nawee rooz,} or new year's day, which they held on the vernal equinox, and which "lasted ten days, during which all ranks seemed to participate in one general joy.
The rich sent presents to the poor; all were dressed in their holiday clothes; all kept open house; and religious processions, music, dancing, a species of theatrical exhibition, rustic sports, and other pastimes, presented a continued round of varied amusement.
Even the dead, and the ideal beings were not forgotten; rich viands being placed on the tops of houses and high towers, on the flavour of which the {Peris,} and spirits of their departed heroes and friends, were supposed to feast."
After the Mohammedan conquest of Persia, the celebration of this period sensibly declined, and at last totally ceased, till the time of Jelaladdin (about A.D. 1082), who, coming to the crown at the vernal equinox, re-established the ancient festival, which has ever since been celebrated with pomp and acclamations.
Lev. 23:24‑25• 24Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, on the first of the month, shall ye have a rest, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, a holy convocation.
 25No manner of servile work shall ye do; and ye shall present an offering by fire to Jehovah. (Lev. 23:24‑25)
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Ezra 3:6• 6From the first day of the seventh month they began to offer up burnt-offerings to Jehovah. But the foundation of the temple of Jehovah was not yet laid. (Ezra 3:6)
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Neh. 7:73• 73And the priests, and the Levites, and the doorkeepers, and the singers, and some of the people, and the Nethinim, and all Israel, dwelt in their cities. And when the seventh month came, and the children of Israel were in their cities, (Neh. 7:73)
the first day of the month.The monthly sacrifices were regulated by the new moons; and it is probable that the solemn sacrifices were appointed by God, to prevent the idolatry which was usual among the heathen at this period; who expressed the most extravagant rejoicings on the first appearance of the new moon.
Moses, however, used the return of the moon only as one of the most natural and convenient measures of time; and appointed sacrifices to Jehovah, to prevent the Israelites from falling into the idolatries of their heathen neighbours.
In the serene climate of Arabia and Judea, its first faint crescent is, for the most part, visible to all.blowing.
Num. 10:1‑10• 1And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,
 2Make thee two trumpets of silver; of beaten work shalt thou make them; and they shall serve for the calling together of the assembly, and for the journeying of the camps.
 3And when they shall blow with them, the whole assembly shall gather to thee at the entrance of the tent of meeting.
 4And if they blow with one, then the princes, the heads of the thousands of Israel, shall gather unto thee.
 5And when ye blow an alarm, the camps that lie eastward shall set forward.
 6And when ye blow an alarm the second time, the camps that lie southward shall set forward; they shall blow an alarm on their setting forward.
 7And when the congregation is to be gathered together, ye shall blow, but ye shall not blow an alarm:
 8the sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow with the trumpets; and they shall be to you for an everlasting statute throughout your generations.
 9And if ye go to war in your land against the enemy that oppresseth you, then ye shall blow an alarm with the trumpets; and ye shall be remembered before Jehovah your God, and ye shall be saved from your enemies.
 10And in the day of your gladness, and in your set feasts, and in your new moons, ye shall blow with the trumpets over your burnt-offerings and over your sacrifices of peace-offering; and they shall be to you for a memorial before your God: I am Jehovah your God. (Num. 10:1‑10)
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1 Chron. 15:28• 28And all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of Jehovah with shouting, and with sound of the trumpet, and with clarions, and with cymbals, playing aloud with lutes and harps. (1 Chron. 15:28)
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Psa. 81:3• 3Blow the trumpet at the new moon, at the set time, on our feast day: (Psa. 81:3)
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Psa. 89:15• 15Blessed is the people that know the shout of joy: they walk, O Jehovah, in the light of thy countenance. (Psa. 89:15)
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Isa. 27:13• 13And it shall come to pass in that day, that the great trumpet shall be blown; and they shall come that were perishing in the land of Assyria, and the outcasts in the land of Egypt, and they shall worship Jehovah in the holy mountain at Jerusalem. (Isa. 27:13)
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Zech. 9:14• 14And Jehovah shall be seen over them, and his arrow shall go forth as the lightning; and the Lord Jehovah will blow the trumpet, and will march with whirlwinds of the south. (Zech. 9:14)
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Mark 16:15‑16• 15And he said to them, Go into all the world, and preach the glad tidings to all the creation.
 16He that believes and is baptised shall be saved, and he that disbelieves shall be condemned. (Mark 16:15‑16)
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Rom. 10:14‑18• 14How then shall they call upon him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe on him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without one who preaches?
 15and how shall they preach unless they have been sent? according as it is written, How beautiful the feet of them that announce glad tidings of peace, of them that announce glad tidings of good things!
 16But they have not all obeyed the glad tidings. For Esaias says, Lord, who has believed our report?
 17So faith then is by a report, but the report by God's word.
 18But I say, Have they not heard? Yea, surely, Their voice has gone out into all the earth, and their words to the extremities of the habitable world. (Rom. 10:14‑18)
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Rom. 15:16‑19• 16for me to be minister of Christ Jesus to the nations, carrying on as a sacrificial service the message of glad tidings of God, in order that the offering up of the nations might be acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.
 17I have therefore whereof to boast in Christ Jesus in the things which pertain to God.
 18For I will not dare to speak anything of the things which Christ has not wrought by me, for the obedience of the nations, by word and deed,
 19in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of the Spirit of God; so that I, from Jerusalem, and in a circuit round to Illyricum, have fully preached the glad tidings of the Christ; (Rom. 15:16‑19)
• The renewal, according to the value of Christ’s work, of God’s connection with the earth, and especially with Israel. Hence besides the regular recognition of grace on the first of the month, an additional bullock, ram and seven lambs were offered. (“Numbers 26-29” by J.N. Darby)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And in the seventh month, on the first of the month, ye shall have a holy convocation: no manner of servile work shall ye do; a day of blowing the trumpets shall it be unto you.