1. Lévitique 23:32 (NEG79)
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What does the phrase “from evening to evening” refer to?

Lévitique 23:32 (NEG79)

32 Ce sera pour vous un sabbat, un jour de repos, et vous humilierez vos âmes; dès le soir du neuvième jour jusqu'au soir suivant, vous célébrerez votre sabbat.

This unique expression occurs nowhere else in the Old Testament. It does, however, express the Hebrew understanding of a day starting on the evening (see Genesis 1:5). Understood in this way, this Day of Atonement began on the evening of the ninth day of the seventh month and concludes on the evening of the tenth day.