Feast of Trumpets

The Feast of Trumpets is the observance appointed for the first day of the seventh month: a day of solemn rest and holy convocation, marked by the blast of horns and an offering to the LORD. Its place in the festival calendar makes it a public ritual of remembrance and worship.

Date and Form

The LORD instructs Moses to tell the Children of Israel that the observance falls on the first day of the seventh month. Its prescribed form combines a solemn rest with a memorial proclaimed by blasts of horns; the people are to assemble for a holy convocation and bring an offering made by fire to the LORD.

The command also prohibits servile work that day. The observance is therefore marked not only by the sound of the horns and communal gathering, but by setting ordinary labor aside.

Place in the Festival Calendar

The Feast of Trumpets appears among the appointed seasons in the seventh month. It opens a sequence that includes the Day of Atonement on the tenth day and the Feast of Tabernacles beginning on the fifteenth, followed by an eighth-day assembly.

Its positioning gives the first-day observance a distinct role within a concentrated season of sacred gatherings. The passage specifies its timing and practices, but does not narrate a particular historical celebration or explain the memorial’s object beyond naming it as a memorial.