Leviticus 16:20-30

20 “When Aaron has finished making atonement for the Most Holy Place, the tent of meeting and the altar, he shall bring forward the live goat.
21 He is to lay both hands on the head of the live goat and confess over it all the wickedness and rebellion of the Israelites—all their sins—and put them on the goat’s head. He shall send the goat away into the wilderness in the care of someone appointed for the task.
22 The goat will carry on itself all their sins to a remote place; and the man shall release it in the wilderness.
23 “Then Aaron is to go into the tent of meeting and take off the linen garments he put on before he entered the Most Holy Place, and he is to leave them there.
24 He shall bathe himself with water in the sanctuary area and put on his regular garments. Then he shall come out and sacrifice the burnt offering for himself and the burnt offering for the people, to make atonement for himself and for the people.
25 He shall also burn the fat of the sin offering on the altar.
26 “The man who releases the goat as a scapegoat must wash his clothes and bathe himself with water; afterward he may come into the camp.
27 The bull and the goat for the sin offerings, whose blood was brought into the Most Holy Place to make atonement, must be taken outside the camp; their hides, flesh and intestines are to be burned up.
28 The man who burns them must wash his clothes and bathe himself with water; afterward he may come into the camp.
29 “This is to be a lasting ordinance for you: On the tenth day of the seventh month you must deny yourselves[a] and not do any work—whether native-born or a foreigner residing among you—
30 because on this day atonement will be made for you, to cleanse you. Then, before the LORD, you will be clean from all your sins.

Cross References 22

  • 1. S ver 5
  • 2. S Exodus 29:10
  • 3. S Leviticus 5:5
  • 4. S Exodus 28:38; Isaiah 53:12
  • 5. S Exodus 28:42
  • 6. Ezekiel 42:14; Ezekiel 44:19
  • 7. S Leviticus 6:16
  • 8. ver 3-5
  • 9. Leviticus 1:3
  • 10. S ver 11
  • 11. S ver 8
  • 12. S Leviticus 11:25
  • 13. Leviticus 14:8
  • 14. S Exodus 29:14; Leviticus 4:12,21; Hebrews 13:11
  • 15. Numbers 19:8,10
  • 16. S Exodus 12:14
  • 17. Leviticus 25:9
  • 18. ver 31; Leviticus 23:27,32; Numbers 29:7; Isaiah 58:3
  • 19. S Exodus 31:15; S Leviticus 23:28
  • 20. Exodus 12:19
  • 21. S Exodus 30:10
  • 22. Psalms 51:2; Jeremiah 33:8; Ezekiel 36:33; Zechariah 13:1; Ephesians 5:26

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. Or "must fast" ; also in verse 31
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