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English Standard Version, Leviticus 16:
Moses fasted in Exodus 34:
Joel called for private fasting in Joel 2:
See also Fasting in the NT.
i.e., the Day of Atonement or Yom Kippur29 And it shall be a statute to you forever that in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month,
i.e., stop eatingyou shall afflict yourselves
Acts 27:9 alludes to this day of fast:and shall do no work, either the native or the stranger who sojourns among you. 30 For on this day shall atonement be made for you to cleanse you. You shall be clean before the LORD from all your sins.
NIV:Since much time had passed, and the voyage was now dangerous because even the Fast was already over, Paul advised them,
Even today, Jews observe this holy day with a day-long fast. The OT also recorded fasting on a voluntary basis.Much time had been lost, and sailing had already become dangerous because by now it was after the Day of Atonement. So Paul warned them,
Moses fasted in Exodus 34:
Daniel fasted in Daniel 10:28 So he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights. He neither ate bread nor drank water. And he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments.
David and his men fasted in 2 Samuel 1:2 In those days I, Daniel, was mourning for three weeks. 3 I ate no delicacies, no meat or wine entered my mouth, nor did I anoint myself at all, for the full three weeks.
H6684 צוּם (tsum) occurs 21 times, Brown-Driver-Briggs:12 And they mourned and wept and fasted [H6684] until evening for Saul and for Jonathan his son and for the people of the LORD and for the house of Israel, because they had fallen by the sword.
In the OT, fasting means abstaining from eating for a period of time.[צוּם] verb abstain from food, fast
Joel called for private fasting in Joel 2:
and public fasting,12“Yet even now,” declares the LORD, “return to me with all your heart, with fasting [H6685], with weeping, and with mourning;
H6685 occurs 26 times.15 Blow the trumpet in Zion; consecrate a fast; call a solemn assembly;
See also Fasting in the NT.