Leviticus 23:29

29 For anyone who does not practice self-denial during that entire day shall be cut off from the people.

Leviticus 23:29 Meaning and Commentary

Leviticus 23:29

For whatsoever soul [it be] that shall not be afflicted in
that same day
That is, as the Targums of Jonathan and Jerusalem explain it, which can fast and does not fast; for a sick person, and a child under nine years of age, were not obliged to fast on this day {p}:

he shall be cut off from among his people;
by an untimely death, by the hand of God; the Targum of Jonathan says, by the pestilence.

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FOOTNOTES:

F16 Maimon. Hilchot Shebitat Ashur, c. 2. sect. 8, 10.

Leviticus 23:29 In-Context

27 Now, the tenth day of this seventh month is the day of atonement; it shall be a holy convocation for you: you shall deny yourselves and present the Lord's offering by fire;

28 and you shall do no work during that entire day; for it is a day of atonement, to make atonement on your behalf before the Lord your God.

29 For anyone who does not practice self-denial during that entire day shall be cut off from the people.

30 And anyone who does any work during that entire day, such a one I will destroy from the midst of the people.

31 You shall do no work: it is a statute forever throughout your generations in all your settlements.

Footnotes

• [a]. Or [does not fast]