Day of atonement

Question 1

Day of atonement

Answer 1

Leviticus 23:27-32 “Also on the tenth day of this seventh month there shall be a day of atonement: it shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD.”

Question 2

Afflict your soul means to fast

Answer 2

Isaiah 58:3-4 “Wherefore have we fasted, say they, and thou seest not? wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact all your labours.”

Question 3

How to fast

Answer 3

Jonah 3:5-7 “So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.”

Question 4

Paul fasting after Christ died

Answer 4

Acts 27:9 “Now when much time was spent, and when sailing was now dangerous, because the fast was now already past, Paul admonished them,”