On the first day of the seventh month they began to offer burnt offerings to the Lord, even though the foundation of the Lord’s temple had not yet been laid.
After that, they offered the regular burnt offering and the offerings for the beginning of each month , and for all the Lord’s appointed holy occasions, as well as the freewill offerings brought to the Lord.
They gave money to the stonecutters and craftsmen, and gave food, drink, and oil to the people of Sidon and Tyre, so they would bring cedar wood from Lebanon to Joppa by sea, according to the authorisation given them by King Cyrus of Persia.
‘Tell the Israelites: In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you are to have a day of complete rest, commemoration, and trumpet blasts #– #a sacred assembly.
‘You are to hold a sacred assembly in the seventh month, on the first day of the month, and you are not to do any daily work. This will be a day of trumpet blasts for you.