Thematic Bible: Ethanim (october)


Thematic Bible



The tenth day of this seventh month is a special day for the payment for sins. There will be a holy assembly. Humble yourselves, and bring Jehovah a sacrifice by fire.

Observe a special day of rest on the first day of the seventh month. Gather together for worship when the trumpets sound.

The second day the heads of families of all the people and the priests and the Levites came together to Ezra the scribe, to give attention to the words of the law. They saw that it was recorded in the law that Jehovah gave orders by Moses, that the children of Israel were to have tents for their living-places in the feast of the seventh month: They were to give an order, and make it public in all their towns and in Jerusalem, saying: Go out to the mountain and get olive branches and branches of field olives (oil trees) and of myrtle, and palm branches and branches of thick trees, to make tents, as it says in the book.


When the seventh month came, and the children of Israel were in the towns, the people came together like one man to Jerusalem.

The people had not yet started to rebuild the Temple. Yet they began on the first day of the seventh month to burn sacrifices to Jehovah.


They all assembled during the festival. It was the seventh month, the month of Ethanim.


Then, on the tenth day of the seventh month, the Day of Atonement, send someone to blow a trumpet throughout the whole land.


They all assembled during the festival. It was the seventh month, the month of Ethanim.