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Hebrews 9:7

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

But the high priest alone enters the second room, and he does that only once a year, and never without blood, which he offers for himself and for the sins the people had committed in ignorance.

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This is to be a permanent statute for you, to make atonement for the Israelites once a year  because of all their sins.’ And all this was done as the Lord commanded Moses.


He must bring an unblemished ram from the flock according to your assessment of its value as a guilt offering to the priest. Then the priest will make atonement on his behalf for the error he has committed unintentionally, and he will be forgiven.


He doesn’t need to offer sacrifices every day, as high priests do #– #first for their own sins, then for those of the people. He did this once for all time when he offered himself.


‘Once a year Aaron is to perform the atonement ceremony for the altar. Throughout your generations he is to perform the atonement ceremony for  it once a year, with the blood of the sin offering for atonement on the horns.  The altar is especially holy to the Lord.’


My people consult their wooden idols, and their divining rods inform them. For a spirit of promiscuity leads them astray; they act promiscuously in disobedience to   their God.


Even these stagger because of wine and stumble under the influence of beer: Priest and prophet stagger because of beer. They are confused by wine. They stumble because of beer. They are muddled in their visions. They stumble in their judgements.


The leaders of the people mislead them, and those they mislead are swallowed up.


Youths oppress my people, and women rule over them. My people, your leaders mislead you; they confuse the direction of your paths.


But in the sacrifices there is a reminder of sins year after year.


Escape will fail the swift, the strong one will not maintain his strength, and the warrior will not save his life.


Therefore, I will again confound these people with wonder after wonder. The wisdom of their wise will vanish, and the perception of their perceptive will be hidden.


So Manasseh caused Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to stray so that they did worse evil than the nations the Lord had destroyed before the Israelites.


Then the Lord’s anger burned against Uzzah,  and God struck him dead on the spot for his irreverence,  and he died there next to the ark of God.


The priest will then make atonement for the entire Israelite community so that they may be forgiven,  for the sin was unintentional. They are to bring their offering, a food offering to the Lord, and their sin offering before the Lord for their unintentional sin.


They are darkened in their understanding, excluded from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them and because  of the hardness of their hearts.


We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure. It enters the inner sanctuary behind the curtain.


Behind the second curtain was a tent called the most holy place.





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