It will be a Sabbath of complete rest for you, and you shall humble yourselves. From the evening of the ninth day of the month until the following evening you are to keep your Sabbath.”
Parallel translations
- WEB It shall be a Sabbath of solemn rest for you, and you shall deny yourselves. In the ninth day of the month at evening, from evening to evening, you shall keep your Sabbath.”
- KJV It shall be unto you a sabbath of rest, and ye shall afflict your souls: in the ninth day of the month at even, from even unto even, shall ye celebrate your sabbath.
- NKJV It shall be to you a sabbath of solemn rest, and you shall afflict your souls; on the ninth day of the month at evening, from evening to evening, you shall celebrate your sabbath.”
- NASB It is to be a Sabbath of complete rest for you, and you shall humble yourselves; on the ninth of the month at evening, from evening until evening, you shall keep your Sabbath.”
- NLT This will be a Sabbath day of complete rest for you, and on that day you must deny yourselves. This day of rest will begin at sundown on the ninth day of the month and extend until sundown on the tenth day.”
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Quick answer
The Day of Atonement is a Sabbath of complete rest with self-denial, observed from evening to evening.
Overview
The day was the most solemn Sabbath of the year, kept from the evening of the ninth through the following evening. Complete rest and self-denial marked Israel's posture of humble repentance before God. This rhythm of resting and renouncing self points to the rest of soul found in trusting Christ rather than our own works.
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- Ps 51:17The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and a contrite heart, O God, You will not despise.
- Ps 69:10–11I wept and fasted, but it brought me reproach.
- Lev 16:31It is a Sabbath of complete rest for you, that you may humble yourselves; it is a permanent statute.
- Matt 11:28–30Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.
- Lev 23:27“The tenth day of this seventh month is the Day of Atonement. You shall hold a sacred assembly and humble yourselves, and present an offering made by fire to the LORD.
- Ps 35:13Yet when they were ill, I put on sackcloth; I humbled myself with fasting, but my prayers returned unanswered.
- Matt 5:4Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.
- Heb 4:3Now we who have believed enter that rest. As for the others, it is just as God has said: “So I swore on oath in My anger, ‘They shall never enter My rest.’” And yet His works have been finished since the foundation of the world.
- Isa 57:15For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in a high and holy place, and with the oppressed and humble in spirit, to restore the spirit of the lowly and revive the heart of the contrite.
- Isa 61:3to console the mourners in Zion—to give them a crown of beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, and a garment of praise for a spirit of despair. So they will be called oaks of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that He may be glorified.
- Heb 4:11Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will fall by following the same pattern of disobedience.
- Isa 58:3–7“Why have we fasted, and You have not seen? Why have we humbled ourselves, and You have not noticed?” “Behold, on the day of your fast, you do as you please, and you oppress all your workers.
- 1 Cor 11:31Now if we judged ourselves properly, we would not come under judgment.
- Isa 57:18–19I have seen his ways, but I will heal him; I will guide him and restore comfort to him and his mourners,
- Ps 126:5–6Those who sow in tears will reap with shouts of joy.
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