“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.”
Say to the Israelites: on the first day of the seventh month you are to have a day of sabbath rest, a sacred assembly commemorated with trumpet blasts. The Festival of Trumpets on the first of the seventh month opens the fall festival season. The trumpet blasts — the shofar that will later become associated with Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year — announce the arrival of the sacred month. Numbers 29:1–6 specifies the offerings for the day. The day of sabbath rest and sacred assembly communicates the sanctity of the month's opening: the most sacred month of the year begins with the most complete cessation of ordinary life.
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