| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 6 |
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. |
| 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. |
| 11
| 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: |
| 13 | 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: |
| 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. |
| 15 | 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: |
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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. |
| 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. |
| 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: |
| 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. |
| 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. |
