John Gill Commentary Leviticus 23:32

"It shall be unto you a sabbath of solemn rest, and ye shall afflict your souls: in the ninth day of the month at even, from even unto even, shall ye keep your sabbath." — Leviticus 23:32 (ASV)

It [shall be] unto you a sabbath of rest
(See Gill on Leviticus 16:31); and this is thought by some ^F17 to be the sabbath spoken of in (Isaiah 58:13);

and you shall afflict your souls; in the ninth [day] of the month at
even ;
the fast was to begin at the close of the ninth day, and to continue to the end of the tenth; so Maimonides ^F18 : he begins to fast and afflict himself at the evening of the ninth next to the tenth; and so at the going out of it he continues in his affliction a little while of the night of the eleventh, next to the tenth, which is confirmed by what follows:

from even unto even shall you celebrate your sabbath ;
which some understand of the sabbath in general; but it seems to have a particular respect to the sabbath of the day of atonement, which was to last from the evening of the ninth to the evening of the tenth day.

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FOOTNOTES:

• F17: R. Alphes, par. 1. Yom Hacippurim, c. 1. fol. 357. 2.
• F18: Ut supra, (Maimon. Hilchot Shebitat Asher) c. 1. sect. 6.