1883 Haydock Douay Rheims Bible

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Numbers 29:1 The first day also of the seventh month shall be venerable and holy unto you: you shall do no servile work therein, because it is the day of the sounding and of trumpets.

The first. This day was doubly solemn, as being the first day of the month, consequently entitled to all the sacrifices enjoined for it; and also a holiday, for which other victims are requisite, besides the perpetual holocausts, (Numbers 29:2-6.; Numbers 28:11.) (Haydock)