Category:Day of Atonement

---excerpt from the Illustrated Bible Dictionary.

Day of Atonement - 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 Leviticus 16:3; Leviticus 23:26; and Numbers 29:7. 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, Atonement and Feast of Tabernacles.