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Atonement, Day of
The great annual day of humiliation and expiation for the sins of the nation, “the fast” (Acts 27:9), and the only one commanded in the law of Moses. The mode of its observance is described in Lev 16:3–10; Lev 23:26–32; and Num 29:7–11.
It was kept on the tenth day of the month Tisri, i.e., five days before the feast of Tabernacles, and lasted from sunset to sunset. (See Azazel.)
From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), by Matthew George Easton.
