Verse 9

And much time being spent, and the sailing being now dangerous -- because of the fast also being already past -- Paul was admonishing,

Referenced Verses

• Lev 23:27-29 : 27 `Only -- on the tenth of this seventh month is a day of atonements; ye have a holy convocation, and ye have humbled yourselves, and have brought near a fire-offering to Jehovah; 28 and ye do no work in this self-same day, for it is a day of atonements, to make atonement for you, before Jehovah your God. 29 `For any person who is not humbled in this self-same day hath even been cut off from his people;
• Num 29:7 : 7 `And on the tenth of this seventh month a holy convocation ye have, and ye have humbled your souls; ye do no work;
• Lev 16:29-31 : 29 `And it hath been to you for a statute age-during, in the seventh month, in the tenth of the month, ye humble yourselves, and do no work -- the native, and the sojourner who is sojourning in your midst; 30 for on this day he maketh atonement for you, to cleanse you; from all your sins before Jehovah ye are clean; 31 it `is' to you a sabbath of rest, and ye have humbled yourselves -- a statute age-during.