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Chapter 16 |
| 1 | And the LORD
spake unto Moses after the death of the two sons of Aaron, when they offered
before the LORD, and died; |
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2 | And the LORD said unto Moses, Speak
unto Aaron thy brother, that he come not at all times into the holy place
within the vail before the mercy seat, which is upon the ark; that he die not:
for I will appear in the cloud upon the mercy seat. |
| 3 | Thus shall
Aaron come into the holy place: with a young bullock for a sin offering, and a
ram for a burnt offering. |
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4 | He shall put on the holy linen coat,
and he shall have the linen breeches upon his flesh, and shall be girded with a
linen girdle, and with the linen mitre shall he be attired: these are holy
garments; therefore shall he wash his flesh in water, and so put them on.
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| 5 | And he shall take of the congregation of the children of Israel two kids
of the goats for a sin offering, and one ram for a burnt offering. |
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And Aaron shall offer his bullock of the sin offering, which is for himself,
and make an atonement for himself, and for his house. |
| 7 | And he shall
take the two goats, and present them before the LORD at the door of the
tabernacle of the congregation. |
| 8 | And Aaron shall cast lots upon
the two goats; one lot for the LORD, and the other lot for the scapegoat.
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| 9 | And Aaron shall bring the goat upon which the LORD's lot fell, and offer
him for a sin offering. |
| 10 | But the goat, on which the lot fell to be
the scapegoat, shall be presented alive before the LORD, to make an atonement
with him, and to let him go for a scapegoat into the wilderness. |
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And Aaron shall bring the bullock of the sin offering, which is for himself,
and shall make an atonement for himself, and for his house, and shall kill the
bullock of the sin offering which is for himself: |
| 12 | And he shall
take a censer full of burning coals of fire from off the altar before the LORD,
and his hands full of sweet incense beaten small, and bring it within the
vail: |
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And he shall put the incense upon the fire before the LORD,
that the cloud of the incense may cover the mercy seat that is upon the
testimony, that he die not: |
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14 | And he shall take of the blood of the
bullock, and sprinkle it with his finger upon the mercy seat eastward; and
before the mercy seat shall he sprinkle of the blood with his finger seven
times. |
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| Then shall he kill the goat of the sin offering, that is
for the people, and bring his blood within the vail, and do with that blood as
he did with the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it upon the mercy seat, and
before the mercy seat: |
| 16 | And he shall make an atonement for the holy
place, because of the uncleanness of the children of Israel, and because of
their transgressions in all their sins: and so shall he do for the tabernacle
of the congregation, that remaineth among them in the midst of their
uncleanness. |
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17 | And there shall be no man in the tabernacle of the
congregation when he goeth in to make an atonement in the holy place, until he
come out, and have made an atonement for himself, and for his household, and
for all the congregation of Israel. |
| 18 | And he shall go out unto the
altar that is before the LORD, and make an atonement for it; and shall take of
the blood of the bullock, and of the blood of the goat, and put it upon the
horns of the altar round about. |
| 19 | And he shall sprinkle of the
blood upon it with his finger seven times, and cleanse it, and hallow it from
the uncleanness of the children of Israel. |
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20 | And when he hath made
an end of reconciling the holy place, and the tabernacle of the congregation,
and the altar, he shall bring the live goat: |
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21 | And Aaron shall lay
both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the
iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their
sins, putting them upon the head of the goat, and shall send him away by the
hand of a fit man into the wilderness: |
| 22 | And the goat shall bear upon
him all their iniquities unto a land not inhabited: and he shall let go the
goat in the wilderness. |
| 23 | And Aaron shall come into the tabernacle of
the congregation, and shall put off the linen garments, which he put on when he
went into the holy place, and shall leave them there: |
| 24 | And he shall
wash his flesh with water in the holy place, and put on his garments, and come
forth, and offer his burnt offering, and the burnt offering of the people, and
make an atonement for himself, and for the people. |
| 25 | And the fat
of the sin offering shall he burn upon the altar. |
| 26 | And he that
let go the goat for the scapegoat shall wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh
in water, and afterward come into the camp. |
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27 | And the bullock for the
sin offering, and the goat for the sin offering, whose blood was brought in to
make atonement in the holy place, shall one carry forth without the camp; and
they shall burn in the fire their skins, and their flesh, and their dung.
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| 28 | And he that burneth them shall wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in
water, and afterward he shall come into the camp. |
| 29 | And this
shall be a statute for ever unto you: that in the seventh month, on the tenth
day of the month, ye shall afflict your souls, and do no work at all, whether
it be one of your own country, or a stranger that sojourneth among you:
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| 30 | For on that day shall the priest make an atonement for you, to cleanse
you, that ye may be clean from all your sins before the LORD. |
| 31 | It
shall be a sabbath of rest unto you, and ye shall afflict your souls, by a
statute for ever. |
| 32 | And the priest, whom he shall anoint, and
whom he shall consecrate to minister in the priest's office in his father's
stead, shall make the atonement, and shall put on the linen clothes, even the
holy garments: |
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33 | And he shall make an atonement for the holy
sanctuary, and he shall make an atonement for the tabernacle of the
congregation, and for the altar, and he shall make an atonement for the
priests, and for all the people of the congregation. |
| 34 | And this
shall be an everlasting statute unto you, to make an atonement for the children
of Israel for all their sins once a year. And he did as the LORD commanded
Moses. |
