The Definition of the word Atonement, Day of

Atonement, Day of

The great annual day of humiliation and expiation for the sins "of the nation, "the fast" (Acts 27:9), and the only one" commanded in the law of Moses. The mode of its observance is described in Lev. 16:3-10; 23:26-32; and Num. 29:7-11. "It was kept on the tenth day of the month Tisri, i.e., five days "before the feast of Tabernacles, and lasted from sunset to" sunset. (See [41]AZAZEL.)