Leviticus 16:29 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

For ever. See on Exodus 12:14. In the seventh month, answering part to our September, and part to our October; when they had gathered in all their fruits, and were most at leisure for God's service: this time God chose for this and other feasts, herein graciously condescending to men's necessities and conveniencies, being contented with that time which men could best spare. On the tenth day. Object. It was on the ninth day, Leviticus 23:32. Answ. It began in the evening of the ninth day, and continued till the evening of the tenth day, as is there sufficiently implied. Ye shall afflict your souls, i.e. yourselves, as the word soul is frequently used, both your bodies by abstinence from food and other delights, and your minds by anguish and grief for former sins, which though bitter, yet is voluntarily in all true penitents, who are therefore here said not to be afflicted, but to afflict themselves, or to be active in the work.