Num 29; 30: The second cycle of feasts took place in the
seventh or sacred month -- seven being the sacred number, and that of the
covenant. It began with new moon's day when, besides the daily, and the ordinary
new moon's offerings, special festive sacrifices were brought (Num 29:1-6). Then
on the 10th of that month was the "Day of Atonement," while on the 15th the
feast of tabernacles began, lasting seven days. All these feasts had their
appropriate sacrifices.
The laws as to sacrifices appropriately close with directions
about "vows" (Num 30). In all the ordinances connected with the sacred seasons,
there is evident the symbolic significance of the number seven -- alike in the
feasts themselves, in their number, their sacrifices, and in that of the days
appointed for holy convocation. Indeed, the whole arrangement of time was
ordered on the same principle, ascending from the Sabbath of days, to the
Sabbath of weeks, of months, of years, and finally to the Sabbath of Sabbath
years, which was the year of Jubilee. And thus all time pointed forward and
upward to the greatest "Sabbath," or sacred rest, that remains as the hope of
God's people (Heb 4:9).
Num 29:40
MOSES TOLD THE ISRAELITES ALL THAT THE LORD COMMANDED
HIM: Even though Moses knows that he will not enter the land, he continues
to prepare Israel for the time when they will be in the land. Such is the
selflessness of the man Moses -- a pattern for us. What we do for God should not
be based on self-interest. It should be based on pleasing God.