Leviticus 23:27

Easy To Read Version

“The Day of Atonement [407] will be on the tenth day of the seventh month. There will be a holy meeting. You must not eat food [408] and you must bring an offering by fire to the Lord.

Cross References

Ezra 8:21

There near the Ahava River, I (Ezra) announced that we all should fast. {\cf2\super [53]} We should fast to make ourselves humble before our God. We wanted to ask God for a safe trip for ourselves, our children, and for all the things we owned.

Psalm 35:13

When those people were sick,\par I was sad for them.\par I showed my sadness by not eating.\par Is this what I get for praying for them?\par

Exodus 30:10

“Once a year Aaron must make a special sacrifice [297] to the Lord. Aaron will use the blood of the sin offering to erase the sins of the people. Aaron will do this at the horns of this altar. [298] This day will be called the Day of Atonement. This will be a very special day for the Lord.”

Isaiah 58:5

Do you think on those special days for not eating food that all I want is to see people punish their bodies? Do you think I want people to look sad? Do you think I want people to bow their heads like dead plants and wear clothes of sadness? Do you think I want people to sit in ashes to show their sadness? That is what you do on your special days for not eating food. Do you think that is what the Lord wants?

Leviticus 16:11

“Then Aaron will offer the bull as a sin offering for himself. Aaron will make himself and his family pure. [274] Aaron will kill the bull for the sin offering for himself.

Leviticus 16:15

“Then Aaron must kill the goat of the sin offering for the people. Aaron must bring this goat’s blood into the room behind the curtain. Aaron must do with the goat’s blood as he did with the bull’s blood. Aaron must sprinkle the goat’s blood on the special cover [280] and in front of the cover.

Leviticus 16:16

In this way, Aaron will do the things to make the Most Holy Place [281] pure. [282] Aaron must do these things because the people of Israel are unclean. [283] They do wrong and have many sins. Aaron must also do these things for the Meeting Tent [284] because it stays in the middle of unclean people!

Leviticus 16:24

He will wash his {whole} body with water in a holy place. Then he will put on his {other special} clothes. He will come out and offer his burnt offering and the people’s burnt offering. He will make himself and the people pure. [294]

Leviticus 23:26

The Lord said to Moses,

Leviticus 23:28

You must not do any work on that day. Why? Because it is the Day of Atonement. On that day, {the priests will go} before the Lord and do the ceremony that makes you pure. [409]

Leviticus 25:9

On the Day of Atonement, [423] you must blow a ram’s horn. That will be on the tenth day of the seventh month. You must blow the ram’s horn through the whole country.

Acts 27:9

But we had lost much time. It was now dangerous to sail, because it was already after the Jewish day of fasting. {\cf2\super [510]} So Paul warned them,

James 4:9

Be sad, be sorry, and cry! Change your laughter into crying. Change your joy into sadness.