SEventh moneth] The moneth Tizri, which containeth part of September, and part of October.
blowing the trumpets] The first day of the moneth forementioned; for it was the new moon; so the Hebrewes account their moneth, (making the first day of the new moone the first day of the moneth) and in the new moone the trumpet was to be blowne Numbers 10:10. Psalms 81:3. especially in this moneth, wherein (besides this feast) was the feast of expiation, and the feast of Tabernacles, at which the people were assembled by the sound of the trumpet; and this feast of trumpets was instituted, and so called in memoriall of the giving of the Law at mount Sinai, with the shrill and dreadfull sound of a trumpet, Exodus 19:19. See Annot. on Levit. 23. vers. 24.