3785 - The Day of Atonement by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jun 18, 1912

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 39, No. 24.

3785 — The Day of Atonement

By Editor

I am told that the Day of Atonement fell on the last day of the year. If that is so, how is it the tenth day of the seventh month? Lev. 23:27.

There were two years which the Jews held: the one the civil year, beginning with the month Abib, as stated in Exodus 12. The other year was the sacred year, what might be called the year of the sanctuary. The atonement came on the tenth day of the seventh month of the civil year, but it came on the last day of the sacred year, the last day of the offerings, the summing up in the sanctuary of the work that had been done there.