“Seven days ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord: on the eighth day shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord: it is a solemn assembly; and ye shall do no servile work therein.”
For seven days present food offerings to the Lord, and on the eighth day hold a sacred assembly and present a food offering to the Lord. It is the closing special assembly; do no regular work. The eighth day after the seven days of Tabernacles — the Shemini Atzeret, the solemn assembly — is an additional sacred assembly that closes the entire fall festival season. The eighth day that follows the seven-day Tabernacles echoes the eighth-day significance throughout the Levitical system: the eighth day after the seven-day completion is the day of new beginning. The eighth day closes the fall festival season as the first day opened it.
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