Numbers 29:7

New Century Version

“ ‘Have a holy meeting on the tenth day of the seventh month. On that day do not eat and do not work.

Cross References

Ezra 8:21

There by the Ahava Canal, I announced we would all fast and deny ourselves before our God. We would ask God for a safe trip for ourselves, our children, and all our possessions.

Psalm 35:13

Yet when they were sick, I put on clothes of sadness and showed my sorrow by fasting. But my prayers were not answered.

Isaiah 22:12

The Lord God All-Powerful told the people to cry and be sad, to shave their heads and wear rough cloth.

Zechariah 12:10

“I will pour out on David’s family and the people in Jerusalem a spirit of kindness and mercy. They will look at me, the one they have stabbed, and they will cry like someone crying over the death of an only child. They will be as sad as someone who has lost a firstborn son.

Zechariah 7:3

They went to the prophets and priests who were at the Temple of the Lord All-Powerful. The men said, “For years in the fifth month of each year we have shown our sadness and fasted. Should we continue to do this?”

Matthew 5:4

They are blessed who grieve, for God will comfort them.

Luke 13:3

No, I tell you. But unless you change your hearts and lives, you will be destroyed as they were!

Luke 13:5

No, I tell you. But unless you change your hearts and lives, you will all be destroyed too!”

Acts 27:9

We had lost much time, and it was now dangerous to sail, because it was already after the Day of Cleansing. So Paul warned them,

Romans 6:6

We know that our old life died with Christ on the cross so that our sinful selves would have no power over us and we would not be slaves to sin.

1 Corinthians 9:27

I treat my body hard and make it my slave so that I myself will not be disqualified after I have preached to others.