291 ' Now in the seventh month , on the first day of the month , you shall also have a holy convocation ; you shall do no e laborious work . It will be to you a day for blowing trumpets . 2 'You shall offer a burnt offering as a soothing aroma to the Lord : one bull e e , one ram , and seven male lambs one year old without defect ; 3 also their grain offering , fine flour mixed with oil : three-tenths e of an ephah for the bull , two-tenths e for the ram , 4 and one-tenth for each of the seven lambs . 5 'Offer one male goat for a sin offering , to make atonement for you, 6 besides e the burnt offering of the new moon and its grain offering , and the continual burnt offering and its grain offering , and their drink offerings , according to their ordinance , for a soothing aroma , an offering by fire to the Lord .
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Numbers 29:1-6
Commentary on Numbers 29:1-11
(Read Numbers 29:1-11)
There were more sacred solemnities in the seventh month than in any other. It was the space between harvest and seed-time. The more leisure we have from the pressing occupations of this life, the more time we should spend in the immediate service of God. The blowing of the trumpets was appointed, Leviticus 22:24. Here they are directed what sacrifices to offer on that day. Those who would know the mind of God in the Scriptures, must compare one part with another. The latter discoveries of Divine light explain what was dark, and supply what was wanting, in the former, that the man of God may be perfect.