Leviticus
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1 And the LORD spake
unto Moses after the death of the two sons of Aaron, when they offered
before the LORD, and died;
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 LORDS 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:
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.
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:
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 priests office
in his fathers stead, shall make the atonement, and shall put on the
linen clothes, even the holy garments:
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.
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