Afflict your souls] i.e. observe a fast: see Psalms 35:13; Isaiah 58:3; Isaiah 58:5. This is the only fast enjoined in the Mosaic Law. After the exile fasting was a common religious usage: see e.g. Ezra 8:21; Nehemiah 9:1; Esther 4:8; Zechariah 8:19; Matthew 9:14; Luke 2:37; Luke 18:12; Acts 13:2; Acts 14:23. In Acts 27:9 the reference is to the Day of Atonement which was called 'The Fast' par excellence.

In the land of Canaan, etc.] RM 'unto the land of traffic,' etc. See Ezekiel 17:4.

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