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27 “The[a] tenth day of this seventh month is the Day of Atonement.[b] It is to be a holy assembly for you, and you must humble yourselves[c] and present a gift to the Lord.

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  1. Leviticus 23:27 tn Heb “Surely the tenth day” or perhaps “Precisely the tenth day.” The Hebrew adverbial particle אַךְ (ʾakh) is left untranslated by most recent English versions; cf. however NASB “On exactly the tenth day.”
  2. Leviticus 23:27 sn See the description of this day and its regulations in Lev 16 and the notes there.
  3. Leviticus 23:27 tn Heb “you shall humble your souls.” See the note on Lev 16:29 above.

29 Indeed,[a] any person who does not behave with humility on this particular day will be cut off from his people.[b]

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  1. Leviticus 23:29 tn The particular כִּי (ki) is taken in an asseverative sense here (“Indeed,” see the NJPS translation).
  2. Leviticus 23:29 tn Heb “it [i.e., that person; literally “soul,” feminine] shall be cut off from its peoples [plural]”; NLT “from the community.”

32 It is a Sabbath of complete rest for you, and you must humble yourselves on the ninth day of the month in the evening, from evening until evening you must observe your Sabbath.”[a]

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  1. Leviticus 23:32 tn Heb “you shall rest your Sabbath.”