Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And this shall be a statute for ever unto you: that in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, ye shall afflict your souls, and do no work at all, whether it be one of your own country, or a stranger that sojourneth among you:

Bible References

In the seventh

Leviticus 23:27
The tenth day of this seventh month is the day for the taking away of sin; let it be a holy day of worship; you are to keep from pleasure, and give to the Lord an offering made by fire.
Exodus 30:10
And once every year Aaron is to make its horns clean: with the blood of the sin-offering he is to make it clean once every year from generation to generation: it is most holy to the Lord.
Numbers 29:7
And on the tenth day of this seventh month there will be a holy meeting; keep yourselves from pleasure, and do no sort of work;
1 Kings 8:2
And all the men of Israel came together to King Solomon at the feast, in the month Ethanim, the seventh month.
Ezra 3:1
And when the seventh month came, and the children of Israel were in the towns, the people came together like one man to Jerusalem.

Shall afflict

Psalm 35:13
But as for me, when they were ill I put on the clothing of sorrow: I went without food and was sad, and my prayer came back again to my heart.
Psalm 69:10
My bitter weeping, and my going without food, were turned to my shame.
Isaiah 58:3
They say, Why have we kept ourselves from food, and you do not see it? why have we kept ourselves from pleasure, and you take no note of it? If, in the days when you keep from food, you take the chance to do your business, and get in your debts;
Daniel 10:3
I had no pleasing food, no meat or wine came into my mouth, and I put no oil on my body till three full weeks were ended.
1 Corinthians 11:31
But if we were true judges of ourselves, punishment would not come on us.
2 Corinthians 7:10
For the sorrow which God gives is the cause of salvation through a change of heart, in which there is no reason for grief: but the sorrow of the world is a cause of death.

Do no

Leviticus 23:3
On six days work may be done; but the seventh day is a special day of rest, a time for worship; you may do no sort of work: it is a Sabbath to the Lord wherever you may be living.
Exodus 12:16
And on the first day there is to be a holy meeting and on the seventh day a holy meeting; no sort of work may be done on those days but only to make ready what is necessary for everyone's food.
Exodus 20:10
But the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God; on that day you are to do no work, you or your son or your daughter, your man-servant or your woman-servant, your cattle or the man from a strange country who is living among you:
Isaiah 58:13
If you keep the Sabbath with care, not doing your business on my holy day; and if the Sabbath seems to you a delight, and the new moon of the Lord a thing to be honoured; and if you give respect to him by not doing your business, or going after your pleasure, or saying unholy words;
Hebrews 4:10
For the man who comes into his rest has had rest from his works, as God did from his.

Basic English, produced by Mr C. K. Ogden of the Orthological Institute - public domain