Tyndale Open Study Notes

Verse 1

29:1-6 the Festival of Trumpets: See also Lev 23:23-25.

Verse 7

29:7-11 The Day of Atonement was a solemn occasion, a day of fasting (see also Lev 16; 23:26-32; Rom 3:23-25; Heb 9:7-12, 23-28).

29:7 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).

Verse 12

29:12-38 The Festival of Shelters began on the fifteenth day of the seventh month. It was an eight-day harvest celebration (29:12, 35; Exod 34:22) 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). The shelters also reminded the Israelites of dwelling in tents during their wilderness sojourn (see also Lev 23:33-43; 1 Kgs 8:1-2).

Verse 39

29:39 Public offerings were supplemented by a variety of voluntary individual gifts (cp. Lev 23:38).