And in the seventh month, on the first day of the month, ye shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work: it is a day of blowing the trumpets unto you.
In the seventh month - of the ecclesiastical year, but the first month of the civil year, corresponding to our September. It was at a subsequent period, but before the Christian era, the New Years Day, which had been celebrated among the Hebrew and other contemporary nations With great festivity and joy, and ushered in by a flourish of trumpets. This ordinance was designed to give a religious character to the occasion, by associating it with some solemn observances (cf. Exodus 12:2; Leviticus 23:24).
It is a day of blowing the trumpets unto you, х yowm (H3117) tªruw`aah (H8643)] - the day of trumpet-sound. It was announced by the sound of trumpets. This made it a solemn preparation for the sacred feasts, a greater number of which were held during this month than at any other season of the year. Although the institution of this feast was described before, there is more particularity here as to what the burnt offering should consist of, and in addition to it a sin offering is prescribed The special offerings, appointed for certain days, were not to interfere with the offerings usually requisite on these days; because in Numbers 29:6 it is said that the daily offerings, as well as those for the first day of the month, were to take place in their ordinary course.