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Numbers 10:10: Also in the day of your gladness, and in your solemn
days, and in the beginnings of your months, ye shall blow with the
trumpets over your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices of your
peace offerings; that they may be to you for a memorial before your God:
I am the LORD your God.
Numbers 28:11-15: And in the beginnings of your months
ye shall offer a burnt offering unto the LORD; two young bullocks, and
one ram, seven lambs of the first year without spot; And three tenth
deals of flour for a meat offering, mingled with oil, for one bullock;
and two tenth deals of flour for a meat offering, mingled with oil, for
one ram; And a several tenth deal of flour mingled with oil for a meat
offering unto one lamb; for a burnt offering of a sweet savour, a
sacrifice made by fire unto the LORD. And their drink offerings shall be
half an hin of wine unto a bullock, and the third part of an hin unto a
ram, and a fourth part of an hin unto a lamb: this is the burnt offering
of every month throughout the months of the year. And one kid of the
goats for a sin offering unto the LORD shall be offered, beside the
continual burnt offering, and his drink offering.
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Being a lunar calendar, the new moon marked the beginning of each new
month.
From the LDS BIBLE DICTIONARY - Feasts:
The law also directed that at the New Moons special sacrifices should be offered
(Num. 10: 10; Lev. 23: 24-25; 1 Sam. 20: 5-6, 29; 2 Kgs. 4: 23; Amos 8: 5). As
the days of the celebration of all the great Feasts of the Jews were reckoned by
the moon, the exact time of the appearance of the new moons was a matter of
importance. Watchers were placed on the heights around Jerusalem to bring the
news of its appearance with all speed to the Sanhedrin, who proclaimed it as
soon as satisfactory evidence was given. Watchfires on the hilltops told the
news to distant cities. It is said the Samaritans, to cause confusion, lighted
fires at wrong times. See also Jubilee, Year of; Sabbatical year.
From PELOUBET'S BIBLE DICTIONARY - New Moon:
The first day of the lunar month was observed as a holy day. In addition
to the daily sacrifices there were offered to 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. As on the
Sabbath, trade and handicraft work was stopped, and the temple was
opened for public worship. Trumpets were blown at the offering of the
special sacrifices for the say, as on the solemn festivals.
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