Also in the day of your gladness, and in your solemn days, and in the beginnings of your months, ye shall blow with the trumpets over your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings; that they may be to you for a memorial before your God: I am the LORD your God.
Also in the day of your gladness - i:e., festive and thanksgiving occasions were to be ushered in with the trumpets, as all feasts afterward were (Psalms 81:3; 2 Chronicles 29:27), to intimate the joyous and delighted feelings with which they engaged in the service of God. But this verse intimates, what we learn elsewhere (Deuteronomy 14:26; Deuteronomy 16:11; Deuteronomy 16:14: cf. 1 Samuel 1:3-5; 1 Samuel 1:24-25; 1 Samuel 2:1-36:l2-16,19), that during public festivals, private sacrifices or free-will offerings were frequently made by individuals, as a matter of convenience, when they were at the established place of worship.