Leviticus 23:40 (WEB)
You shall take on the first day the fruit of majestic trees, branches of palm trees, and boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook; and you shall rejoice before the LORD your God seven days.
Fathers and councils · 2
Jerome
“Let us pitch tents in the seventh month and noise abroad a solemn fast with the sound of a horn.” — editor's note: Levit. xxiii. 40–42.
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Leo the Great
“We proclaim the holy Fast of the Seventh Month, dearly-beloved, for the exercise of common devotions, confidently inciting you with fatherly exhortations to make Christian by your observance that which was formerly Jewish.” — editor's note: The observances of the seventh month, especially of the Day of Atonement, will be found in Lev. xxiii. 26–44, and Numbers xxix.
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Cross-references · 1
Leviticus 23:40 and Deuteronomy 12:18 share the same wording (11 words).