Dict: smith - NEW MOON

smith:

NEW MOON - N>@ - The first day of the lunar month was observed as a holy day. In addition to the daily sacrifice there were offered two young bullocks, a ram and seven lambs of the first year as a burnt offering, with the proper meat offerings and drink offerings, and a kid as a sin offering. kjv@Numbers:28:11-15) As on the Sabbath, trade and handicraft work were stopped, kjv@Amos:8:5) and the temple was opened for public worship. kjv@Isaiah:66:23; kjv@Ezekiel:46:3) The trumpets were blown at the offering of the special sacrifices for the day, as on the solemn festivals. kjv@Numbers:10:10; kjv@Psalms:81:3) It was an occasion for state banquets. ( kjv@1Samuel:20:5-24) In later, if not in earlier, times fasting was intermitted at the new moons. Judith kjv@8:6. The new moons are generally mentioned so as to show that they were regarded as a peculiar class of holy days, distinguished from the solemn feasts and the Sabbaths. ( kjv@1Chronicles:113:31; kjv@2Chronicles:2:4 kjv@2Chronicles:8:13; 31;3; kjv@Ezra:3:5; kjv@Nehemiah:10:33; kjv@Ezekiel:45:17) The seventh new moon of the religious year, being that of Tisri, commenced the civil year, and had a significance and rites of its own. It was a day of holy convocation. The religious observance of the day of the new moon may plainly be regarded as the consecration of a natural division of time.