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Leviticus 16:34

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

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.

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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.


He did not do this to offer himself many times, as the high priest enters the sanctuary yearly with the blood of another.


‘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.’


For by one offering he has perfected for ever those who are sanctified.


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


‘You are to hold a sacred assembly on the tenth day of this seventh month and practise self-denial;  do not do any work.


You are not to do any work. This is a permanent statute throughout your generations wherever you live.


In the tent of meeting outside the curtain that is in front of the testimony,  Aaron and his sons are to tend the lamp  from evening until morning before the Lord. This is to be a permanent statute  for the Israelites throughout their generations.


On this particular day you are not to do any work, for it is a Day of Atonement to make atonement for yourselves before the Lord your God.


Moses inspected all the work they had accomplished. They had done just as the Lord commanded. Then Moses blessed them.


This is a permanent statute  throughout your generations, wherever you live: you must not eat any fat or any blood.’


The Lord said to Moses, ‘Tell your brother Aaron that he may not come whenever he wants into the holy place  behind the curtain  in front of the mercy seat  on the ark or else he will die, because I appear in the cloud  above the mercy seat.


After Moses spoke to the Israelites, they brought the one who had cursed to the outside of the camp and stoned him. So the Israelites did as the Lord had commanded Moses.





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