Leviticus 23:27-32

23:27 “The¹ tenth day of this seventh month is the Day of Atonement.² It is to be a holy assembly for you, and you must humble yourselves³ and present a gift to the Lord. 23:28 You must not do any work on this particular day,⁴ because it is a day of atonement to make atonement for yourselves⁵ before the Lord your God. 23:29 Indeed,⁶ any person who does not behave with humility on this particular day will be cut off from his people.⁷ 23:30 As for any person⁸ who does any work on this particular day, I will exterminate⁹ that person from the midst of his people!¹⁰ 23:31 You must not do any work. This is a perpetual statute throughout your generations¹¹ in all the places where you live. 23:32 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.”¹²

¹tn Heb “Surely the tenth day” or perhaps “Precisely the tenth day.” The Hebrew adverbial particle אַךְ (’akh) is left untranslated by most recent English versions; cf. however NASB “On exactly the tenth day.”

²sn See the description of this day and its regulations in Lev 16 and the notes there.

³tn Heb “you shall humble your souls.” See the note on Lev 16:29 above.

⁴tn Heb “in the bone of this day.”

⁵tn Heb “on you [plural]”; cf. NASB, NRSV “on your behalf.”

⁶tn The particular כִּי (ki) is taken in an asseverative sense here (“Indeed,” see the NJPS translation).

⁷tn Heb “it [i.e., that person; literally “soul,” feminine] shall be cut off from its peoples [plural]”; NLT “from the community.”

⁸tn Heb “And any person.”

⁹tn See HALOT 3 s.v. I אבד hif. Cf. KJV, NASB, NIV, NRSV, NLT “destroy”; CEV “wipe out.”

¹⁰tn Heb “its people” (“its” is feminine to agree with “person,” literally “soul,” which is feminine in Hebrew; cf. v. 29).

¹¹tn Heb “for your generations.”

¹²tn Heb “you shall rest your Sabbath.”