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Leviticus 16:15

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“He shall then slaughter the goat for the sin offering for the people and take its blood behind the curtain and do with it as he did with the bull’s blood: He shall sprinkle it on the atonement cover and in front of it.

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The Lord said to Moses: “Tell your brother Aaron that he is not to come whenever he chooses into the Most Holy Place behind the curtain in front of the atonement cover on the ark, or else he will die. For I will appear in the cloud over the atonement cover.

Then he shall take the bull outside the camp and burn it as he burned the first bull. This is the sin offering for the community.

Then the anointed priest shall take some of the bull’s blood and carry it into the tent of meeting.

Moses did just as the Lord commanded him.

Besides the regular burnt offering with its drink offering, one male goat is to be presented to the Lord as a sin offering.

For this reason he had to be made like them, fully human in every way, in order that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in service to God, and that he might make atonement for the sins of the people.

This is why he has to offer sacrifices for his own sins, as well as for the sins of the people.

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

Unlike the other high priests, he does not need to offer sacrifices day after day, first for his own sins, and then for the sins of the people. He sacrificed for their sins once for all when he offered himself.

He did not enter by means of the blood of goats and calves; but he entered the Most Holy Place once for all by his own blood, thus obtaining eternal redemption.

The blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkled on those who are ceremonially unclean sanctify them so that they are outwardly clean.

Behind the second curtain was a room called the Most Holy Place,

But only the high priest entered the inner room, and that only once a year, and never without blood, which he offered for himself and for the sins the people had committed in ignorance.




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