Numbers 29:1-40 NLT Text Notes

*Num 29:1 Hebrew the first day of the seventh month. This day in the ancient Hebrew lunar calendar occurred in September or October. This festival is celebrated today as Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year.

*Num 29:3 Hebrew 3/10 of an ephah [6.6 liters]; also in 29:9, 14.

*Num 29:3 Hebrew 2/10 of an ephah [4.4 liters]; also in 29:9, 14.

*Num 29:4 Hebrew 1/10 of an ephah [2.2 liters]; also in 29:10, 15.

*Num 29:5 Or to make atonement for yourselves.

*Num 29:7 Hebrew On the tenth day of the seventh month; see 29:1 and the note there. This day in the ancient Hebrew lunar calendar occurred in September or October. It is celebrated today as Yom Kippur.

*Num 29:12 Hebrew On the fifteenth day of the seventh month; see 29:1, 7 and the notes there. This day in the ancient Hebrew lunar calendar occurred in late September, October, or early November.

*Num 29:12 Or Festival of Booths, or Festival of Tabernacles. This was earlier called the Festival of the Final Harvest or Festival of Ingathering (see Exod 23:16b). It is celebrated today as Sukkot (or Succoth).

*Num 29:40 Verse 29:40 is numbered 30:1 in Hebrew text.