Day of Blowing the Horn

The Day of Blowing the Horn is the holy convocation appointed for the first day of the seventh month. Its distinctive public observance is the blowing of the horn; its calendar instructions combine a cessation from servile work with a detailed sequence of offerings.

Date and Observance

The observance falls on the first day of the seventh month. The day is designated a holy convocation, and servile work is prohibited, setting it apart from ordinary labor.

The text identifies the day by the sounding of the horn. It does not describe a separate ceremony for that act, but places it within a prescribed calendar of communal sacred observances.

Offerings and Atonement

The offering for the day consists of a burnt offering of one young bullock, one ram, and seven yearling lambs, all without blemish. Their meal offerings are fine flour mixed with oil: three tenths for the bullock, two tenths for the ram, and one tenth for each lamb.

One he-goat is presented as a sin offering to make atonement. These offerings are made in addition to those prescribed for the new moon and to the continual burnt offering, meal offering, and drink offerings; the day therefore adds its own observance to the recurring sacrificial schedule rather than replacing it.

Place in the Calendar

The Day of Blowing the Horn is one of several appointed holy convocations whose instructions coordinate sacred time, restricted labor, and offerings. Its first-of-the-month date links it to the new moon, while the separate horn-blowing designation marks it as a distinctive occasion within the seventh month's sequence.

The prescription gives the day a clear ritual profile—assembly, rest, a burnt offering, and a sin offering—without narrating a particular historical occasion for its institution or describing how the observance was carried out beyond those requirements.