CHAPTER V. 413 from tillage; and at or after the seventh sabbatical year, that is, once in fiftyyears, there was the year of jubilee, or release and rest from servitude or bondage ; Lev. xxv. 2, 7, 8 -17. 104. Q. What was the great day of atonement ? A. The tenth clay of the seventh month was appointed as a general day of public fasting and humiliation, repentance and'atone- ment for all the people ; Lev. "xxiii. 27. and xvi. 29. and Num. XXXIX. 105. Q. What was to be done that day, ? A. This was the day when the high-priest, dressed in his richest garments, was to enter into the most holy place with the blond of a peculiar sacrifice, and sprinkle it upon the mercy-seat-beforethe Lord to make atonement for the sins of the whole nation, and to offer incense on the golden censer. See several more ceremonies be- longing to this clay ; Lev. xvi.. Let it be observed also, that in the year of jubilee, on this great day of atonement, the trumpet of jubilee was to be sounded through the land, to proclaim liberty to all the inhabitants ; Lev. xxv. 8, 9, 10. 106. Q. What was the feast of tabernacles ? A. At the fifteenth day of the seventh month, at the end of all their harvest, they begun this feast, and dwelt seven days in booths made of the boughs of trrees ; Deut. xvi. 13. 107. Q. What was the design of this ceremony? A. To keep in memory their dwelling in booths in the wilderness, when they went out of the land of Egypt ; Lev. xxiii. 39-44. 108. Q. How was this feast observed ? A. By peculiar sa- crifices every day of the feast, and a holy assembly on the first slay, and on the eighth day ; Num. xxix. 12. 109. Q. At what hour did their sabbaths, and all their feasts begin and end ? A. The Jews counted their days, and particu- larly their holy days, from the evening at sun-set to the next evening ; Gen. i. 5. Lev. xxiii. 5, 32. 110: Q. At what place were the feasts to be kept ? A. At the place which God should chuse for the residence of the ark, and tabernacle ; which was first at Shiloh, afterwards at Jerusalem, though the blowing of trumpets to proclaim the beginning of the year was practised in all the cities of Israel. See Deut. xvi. 16. and Pool's Annotations on Lev. xxiii. 24. 2 Kings xxi. 4. 111. Q. flow then could all Israel keep these feasts ? A. At, the three chief feasts, viz. the passover, pentecost, and the feast of tabernacles, all the males were to appear before God, in one place with some offering ; Exod. xxiii. 14-17. Deut. xvi. 16. 112. Q. What was the offering they were to bring unto God when they appeared before him at these solemn feasts? A. The tythe or tenth part of their corn, wine and oil, and the first-born of , their cattle ; but they themselves were to D d 3 I?
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