Leviticus 23:27

“The tenth day of this seventh month is the Day of Atonement. You shall hold a sacred assembly and humble yourselves, and present a food offering to the LORD.

Berean Standard Bible

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Study note

Setting — The LORD addresses Moses in Leviticus 23:26 to establish the festival calendar, and in Leviticus 23:27 declares the tenth day of the seventh month as a designated holy day.

The words — הַ/כִּפֻּרִ֣ים (ha./ki.pu.Rim) translates literally as "atonement," and בֶּ/עָשׂ֣וֹר (be./'a.Sor) means "on the tenth," anchoring the observance to a specific calendar marker.

The thread — Leviticus 16:29 repeats the tenth day of the seventh month as a permanent statute for humbling oneself, while Exodus 30:10 and Leviticus 16:24 describe the annual priestly atonement ritual and preparatory washing that frame the day's function.

Why it lands — The text commands a sacred assembly, self-humiliation, and a food offering to the LORD, and the surrounding context in Leviticus 23:28 explicitly prohibits any work on this day.

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The Hebrew words

אַ֡ךְ'akhsurely בֶּעָשׂ֣וֹרbe./'a.Soron the/ ten לַחֹדֶשׁ֩la./cho.Deshof the/ month הַשְּׁבִיעִ֨יha./she.vi.'I<the>/ seventh הַזֶּ֜הha./Zeh<the>/ this י֧וֹםYom[is] [the] day of הַכִּפֻּרִ֣יםha./ki.pu.Rim<the>/ atonement<s>ה֗וּאHu'it מִֽקְרָא־mik.ra'-a convocation of קֹ֙דֶשׁ֙ko.deshholiness יִהְיֶ֣הyih.Yehit will beלָכֶ֔םla./Khemto <the>/ youוְעִנִּיתֶ֖םve./'i.ni.Temand/ you will afflict אֶת־'et-<obj.>נַפְשֹׁתֵיכֶ֑םnaf.sho.tei./Khemselves/ your וְהִקְרַבְתֶּ֥םve./hik.rav.Temand/ you will present אִשֶּׁ֖ה'i.Sheha fire offering לַיהוָֽה׃la./Yah.wehto/ Yahweh

King James Version

Also on the tenth day of this seventh month there shall be a day of atonement: it shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord.

Cross-references

Leviticus 16:29 This is to be a permanent statute for you: On the tenth day of the seventh month, you shall humble yourselves and not do any work—whether the native or the foreigner who resides among you—
Exodus 30:10 Once a year Aaron shall make atonement on the horns of the altar. Throughout your generations he shall make atonement on it annually with the blood of the sin offering of atonement. The altar is most holy to the LORD.”
Leviticus 16:24 He is to bathe himself with water in a holy place and put on his own clothes. Then he must go out and sacrifice his burnt offering and the people’s burnt offering to make atonement for himself and for the people.
Numbers 29:7 On the tenth day of this seventh month, you are to hold a sacred assembly, and you shall humble yourselves; you must not do any work.
Leviticus 16:15 Aaron shall then slaughter the goat for the sin offering for the people and bring its blood behind the veil, and with its blood he must do as he did with the bull’s blood: He is to sprinkle it against the mercy seat and in front of it.
Isaiah 58:5 Is this the fast I have chosen: a day for a man to deny himself, to bow his head like a reed, and to spread out sackcloth and ashes? Will you call this a fast and a day acceptable to the LORD?
Leviticus 16:11 When Aaron presents the bull for his sin offering and makes atonement for himself and his household, he is to slaughter the bull for his own sin offering.
Leviticus 25:9 Then you are to sound the horn far and wide on the tenth day of the seventh month, the Day of Atonement. You shall sound it throughout your land.
Ezra 8:21 And there by the Ahava Canal I proclaimed a fast, so that we might humble ourselves before our God and ask Him for a safe journey for us and our children, with all our possessions.
Daniel 10:2 In those days I, Daniel, was mourning for three full weeks.