Assertion: atonement | /r/AtLocation | ezek
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text: It is claimed that the day originated in the two days of atonement mentioned in Ezek 45:18-20 (compare under I, 1); in the four national fast days of Zec 7:5, and 8:19, and in the day of penance of 444 BC, just mentioned, on the 24th day of the 7th month, which is said to hav e been repeated on the following New Year's day, the 10th day of the 7th month; and that by the sacred character of its observance it soon crowded the New Year day upon the 1st day of the 7th month (compare Lev 23:23 ff; Nu 29:1 ff; contrary to Lev 25:9 and Ezek 40:1).