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Numbers 29:7 Explained in Context
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Verse 7. 7And ye shall have on the tenth day of this seventh month an holy convocation; and ye shall afflict your souls: ye shall not do any work therein:
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Quick Meaning
Numbers 29:7 within “The Tenth Day Joins Self-Denial and Atonement Offerings,” specifies this offering, time, object, action, or recipient within the rite; in lightly modernized wording, the clause reads: you shall have on the tenth day of this seventh month an holy convocation; and you shall afflict your souls: you shall not do any work therein.
Read It With
- Numbers 29:7–11
Read Numbers 29:7 with 29:7–11. It within “The Tenth Day Joins Self-Denial and Atonement Offerings,” specifies this offering, time, object, action, or recipient within the rite; in lightly modernized wording, the clause reads: you shall have on the tenth day of this seventh month an holy convocation; and you shall afflict your souls: you shall not do any work therein. The complete unit establishes this contextual meaning: On the tenth day Israel gathers, does no work, and afflicts itself while presenting one bull, one ram, seven lambs, their accompaniments, and a goat in addition to the atonement and daily offerings.
Why This Verse Appears Here
The Tenth Day Joins Self-Denial and Atonement Offerings contributes this unit's ritual movement to Numbers' progress from Sinai through wilderness crisis to Moab: On the tenth day Israel gathers, does no work, and afflicts itself while presenting one bull, one ram, seven lambs, their accompaniments, and a goat in addition to the atonement and daily offerings. At 29:7, the verse within “The Tenth Day Joins Self-Denial and Atonement Offerings,” specifies this offering, time, object, action, or recipient within the rite; in lightly modernized wording, the clause reads: you shall have on the tenth day of this seventh month an holy convocation; and you shall afflict your souls: you shall not do any work therein.
What Remains True
Because Numbers 29:7 within “The Tenth Day Joins Self-Denial and Atonement Offerings,” specifies this offering, time, object, action, or recipient within the rite; in lightly modernized wording, the clause reads: you shall have on the tenth day of this seventh month an holy convocation; and you shall afflict your souls: you shall not do any work therein, its proportionate enduring truth is this: Faithful practice should join truthful memory, proportionate commitment, transparent resources, rest, gratitude, and access rather than spectacle or coercion. This unit also keeps the following boundary explicit: Self-denial does not authorize self-harm, eating-disorder coercion, denial of medical need, or contempt for Jewish Yom Kippur practice.
How It Can Shape Life
- Verse role: Numbers 29:7 within “The Tenth Day Joins Self-Denial and Atonement Offerings,” specifies this offering, time, object, action, or recipient within the rite; in lightly modernized wording, the clause reads: you shall have on the tenth day of this seventh month an holy convocation; and you shall afflict your souls: you shall not do any work therein. Contextual meaning: On the tenth day Israel gathers, does no work, and afflicts itself while presenting one bull, one ram, seven lambs, their accompaniments, and a goat in addition to the atonement and daily offerings. Proportionate enduring truth: Faithful practice should join truthful memory, proportionate commitment, transparent resources, rest, gratitude, and access rather than spectacle or coercion. This unit also keeps the following boundary explicit: Self-denial does not authorize self-harm, eating-disorder coercion, denial of medical need, or contempt for Jewish Yom Kippur practice. Application: Review whether a community's repeated practices actually serve memory, repair, belonging, and honest stewardship, and remove burdens that depend on pressure or hidden finance. Self-denial does not authorize self-harm, eating-disorder coercion, denial of medical need, or contempt for Jewish Yom Kippur practice.
Continue in Context
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Read Numbers 29:7–11 — The Tenth Day Joins Self-Denial and Atonement OfferingsSources used for this Verse Lens
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact reader-facing KJV wording, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete verse coverage for this thought unit.
Exact location: Numbers 29:7–11, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Numbers
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project
Open Scriptures, release 2.2, 2021
Supports: Hebrew wording, morphology, names, numbers, speeches, poems, legal clauses, older-English controls, and translation limits.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Num.xml, Masoretic words and morphology for 29:7–11
Open source ↗translation and translator notes
NET Bible: Numbers with translators' notes
Biblical Studies Press
eBible.org distribution of the NET Bible, source files dated 2026-08-08
Supports: Unit-bounded translation, syntax, lexical, ritual, legal, number, name, poetic, and selected textual notes; silence is not evidence.
Exact location: NET Bible Numbers PDF, complete 134-page PDF, translation and translator notes attached to 29:7–11
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