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Numbers 29 adds a holy assembly on the eighth day of the Feast of Tabernacles without explaining where it came from. Jubilees 32 traces that extra day to Jacob at Bethel, who kept one more day of sacrifice and named it Addition.
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Numbers 29:35
Hebrew Bible
34 along with one male goat for a purification offering, in addition to the continual burnt offering with its grain offering and its drink offering. 35 “‘On the eighth day you are to have a holy assembly; you must do no ordinary work on it. 36 But you must offer a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, as a pleasing aroma to the Lord, one bull, one ram, seven lambs one year old, all of them without blemish, 37 and with their grain offerings and their drink offerings for the bull, for the ram, and for the lambs, according to their number as prescribed, 38 along with one male goat for a purification offering, in addition to the continual burnt offering with its grain offering and its drink offering.
Jubilees 32:27
Pseudepigrapha
27 He celebrated one more day there. On it he sacrificed exactly as he had been sacrificing on the previous days. He named it Addition because that day was added. He named the previous ones the Festival. 28 This is the way it was revealed that it should be, and it is written on the heavenly tablets. For this reason it was revealed to him that he should celebrate it and add it to the seven days of the festival. 29 It was called Addition because of the fact that it is entered in the testimony of the festal days in accord with the number of days in the year.
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Notes and References
... In Numbers 29, though it is still called a seven-day celebration (verse 12) and the sacrifices for each of the seven are detailed in verses 13-34, the text adds: 'On the eighth day you shall have a solemn assembly [עצרת]; you shall not work at your occupations' (verse 35). The following verses (36-38) describe sacrifices for day 8 that differ from the ones for all of the previous seven. The legal sections, then, provide no motivation or explanation for an eighth day, but the story about Solomon's dedication of the temple furnishes some useful information. He gathered the people at the festival in the seventh month (1 Kings 8:2), and after the ceremony and his lengthy prayer the king offered a vast number of animals as peace offerings (as Jacob did during the same festival). ...
VanderKam, James C.
Jubilees 1: A Commentary on the Book of Jubilees Chapters 1–21
(p. 893) Fortress Press, 2018
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