Chapter 16
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And the LORD spoke to Moses after the death of two sons of Aaron, when they approached before the LORD and died.
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And the LORD said to Moses, "Speak to Aaron your brother and do not let him come at all times to the holy place from inside to the veil before the mercy seat, which is over the ark, and he shall not die, for in the cloud I will appear over the mercy seat."
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With this Aaron shall come to the holy place: with a bull—a son of cattle—for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering.
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He shall put on a holy linen tunic, linen trousers shall be on his flesh, and he shall gird himself with a linen sash. He shall wrap a linen turban on his head. They are holy garments. He shall wash his flesh in water and put them on.
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From the congregation of the sons of Israel he shall take two he-goats for a sin offering and one ram for a burnt offering.
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And Aaron brought the sin offering bull that is for him near, and he made atonement for him and for his house.
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He shall take the two he-goats and cause them to stand before the LORD at the entrance of the tent of meeting.
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Aaron shall cast lots over the two goats: one lot for the LORD and one lot for Azazel.
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And Aaron shall bring forward the goat on which the lot came up for the LORD, and he shall make it a sin offering.
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The goat on which the lot for Azazel fell shall stand alive before the LORD, to make atonement over it, to send it to Azazel in the wilderness.
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Aaron presented his sin offering bull and made atonement for himself and for his house. He slaughtered his sin offering bull.
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And he shall take a full censer of coals of fire from upon the altar before the LORD, and fill his palms with fine spices incense, and bring it inside to the veil.
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And he shall put the incense on the fire before the LORD, and the cloud of the incense shall cover the mercy seat that is on the testimony, and he shall not die.
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And he shall take some of the blood of the bull and sprinkle it with his finger on the face of the atonement cover eastward, and in front of the atonement cover he shall sprinkle seven times from the blood with his finger.
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And he shall slaughter the goat of the sin offering which is for the people and he shall bring its blood to the holy place to the veil and he shall do with its blood just as he did with the blood of the bull and he shall sprinkle it on the mercy seat and before the mercy seat.
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And he shall make atonement on the holy place from the uncleanness of the sons of Israel and from their transgressions for all their sins. And in this way he shall do for the Tent of Meeting, the one dwelling with them in the midst of their uncleannesses.
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And no human will be in the tent of appointed time when he enters to atone in the holy things until his going out, and he atones for himself and for his house and for all the assembly of Israel.
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He went out to the altar that is before the LORD and made atonement on it. He took some of the blood of the bull and some of the blood of the goat and put it on the horns of the altar all around.
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He sprinkled some of the blood on it with his finger seven times and purified it and consecrated it from the uncleanness of the sons of Israel.
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And when he finishes atoning for the holy place and the tent of meeting and the altar, he presents the live goat.
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And Aaron shall lay both his hands on the head of the living Scapegoat and confess over it all the iniquities of the sons of Israel and all their transgressions for all their sins, and he shall give them on the head of the Scapegoat and send it away by the hand of a man of the moment into the wilderness.
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And the goat shall bear on it all their iniquities to a land of separation, and he shall send the goat into the wilderness.
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And Aaron came to the tent of meeting and stripped off the linen garments that he had put on when he entered the holy place, and he left them there.
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And he washed his flesh in water in the holy place, and put on his garments, and went out and did his burnt offering and the burnt offering of the people, and made atonement for himself and for the people.
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And he will make incense with the fat of the sin offering on the altar.
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The one who sends away the shaggy goat to Azazel shall wash his garments and wash his flesh in water, and after that he shall come into the camp.
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And the bull of the sin offering and the goat of the sin offering, whose blood was brought to make atonement in the holy things, he shall bring out to outside the camp, and he shall burn their skin and their flesh and their dung in fire.
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And the burner shall wash his garments and wash his flesh in water, and after that he shall come to the camp.
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And it shall be to you a statute of eternity in the seventh month on the tenth of the month you shall afflict your nepheshot and every cultic work you shall not do—the citizen and the resident alien, the resident alien in your midst.
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for on this day he will make atonement for you to purify you from all your sin offerings before the LORD; you will purify yourselves.
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It is a sabbath of sabbath-rest to you, and you shall afflict your life forces; it is a statute forever.
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And the priest who anoints him and who fills his hand, the priest in place of his father, shall make atonement, and he shall put on the linen garments, the holy garments.
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And he shall make atonement for the sanctuary of the holy things and for the tent of meeting and for the altar; and he shall make atonement for the priests and for all the people of the assembly.
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This shall be a statute forever for you, to make atonement for the sons of Israel from all their sin offerings once a year. And he did as the LORD commanded Moses.