Leviticus 16

CLV(i) 1 Yahweh spoke to Moses after the death of the two sons of Aaron when they came near before Yahweh and died. 2 Yahweh said to Moses:Speak to Aaron your brother that he must not come at just any time into the holy place, inside the curtain before the propitiatory shelter which is on the coffer so that he may not die, for in the cloud shall I appear over the propitiatory shelter. 3 In this way shall Aaron come into the holy place:with a young bull, the calf of the herd, as a sin offering, and a ram as an ascent offering. 4 The holy linen tunic shall he put on, and linen breeches shall be over his flesh, and with a linen sash shall he gird himself, and with a linen turban shall he be turbaned; they are holy garments. He will bathe his flesh in water and put them on. 5 From the congregation of the sons of Israel shall he take two hairy goats as a sin offering and one ram as an ascent offering. 6 Aaron will bring near the young bull of the sin offering which is for himself, and he will make a propitiatory shelter about himself and about his house. 7 He will take the two hairy goats and stand them before Yahweh at the opening of the tent of appointment. 8 Then Aaron will cast lots over the two hairy goats, one lot for Yahweh and one lot for the goat of departure. 9 Aaron will bring near the hairy goat over which the lot for Yahweh comes up and make it a sin offering. 10 Yet the hairy goat over which the lot for the goat of departure comes up shall stay alive before Yahweh to make a propitiatory shelter over it and to send it away as the goat of departure to the wilderness. 11 Aaron will bring near the young bull of the sin offering which is for him, and make a propitiatory shelter about himself and about his house. He will slay the young bull of the sin offering which is for himself. 12 Then he will take a full fire-pan of embers of fire off the altar from before Yahweh and both his hands full of thin incense spices and bring it inside the curtain; 13 he will put the incense on the fire before Yahweh, and the cloud of incense will cover the propitiatory shelter which is on the testimony, so that he may not die. 14 He will take some of the blood of the young bull and spatter it with his finger on the face of the propitiatory shelter eastward, and before the propitiatory shelter shall he spatter some of the blood seven times with his finger. 15 He will slay the hairy goat of the sin offering which is for the people, and bring its blood inside the curtain and do with its blood just as he did with the blood of the young bull, and spatter it on the propitiatory shelter and before the propitiatory shelter. 16 Thus he will make a propitiatory shelter over the holy place because of the uncleannesses of the sons of Israel and because of their transgressions, for all their sins. So shall he do for the tent of appointment that is tabernacling with them in the midst of their uncleannesses. 17 No human at all shall come to be in the tent of appointment when he enters to make a propitiatory shelter in the holy place until his coming forth. He will make a propitiatory shelter about himself and about his household and about the whole assembly of Israel. 18 Then he will come forth to the altar which is before Yahweh and make a propitiatory shelter over it. He will take some of the blood of the young bull and some of the blood of the hairy goat and put it on the horns of the altar round about. 19 He will spatter some of the blood on it with his finger seven times and cleanse it and hallow it from the uncleannesses of the sons of Israel. 20 When he has finished making a propitiatory shelter for the holy place and the tent of appointment and the altar, he will bring near the live hairy goat. 21 Aaron will support his two hands on the head of the live hairy goat, confess over it all the depravities of the sons of Israel and all their transgressions in all their sins and put them on the head of the hairy goat and send it away by the hand of a ready man to the wilderness. 22 Thus the hairy goat will bear on it all their depravities to an inaccessible land, and he will send the hairy goat free into the wilderness. 23 Then Aaron will enter the tent of appointment and strip off the linen garments which he put on when he came into the holy place, and he will leave them there. 24 He will bathe his flesh in water in a holy place, put on his garments, go forth, make his ascent offering and the ascent offering of the people and thus make a propitiatory shelter about himself and about the people. 25 The fat of the sin offering shall he cause to fume on the altar. 26 The one sending the hairy goat free as the goat of departure shall rinse his garments and bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he may come into the camp. 27 As for the young bull of the sin offering and the hairy goat of the sin offering, whose blood was brought to make a propitiatory shelter in the holy place, one shall bring them forth outside the camp, and they will burn with fire their hides and their flesh and their dung. 28 The one burning them shall rinse his garments and bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he may come into the camp. 29 It will come to be for you as an eonian statute:in the seventh month on the tenth of the month you shall humble your souls, and no work at all shall you do, the native or the sojourner sojourning in your midst. 30 For on this day shall one make a propitiatory shelter over you to cleanse you from all your sins. Before Yahweh shall you be clean. 31 It is a sabbath of cessation for you, and you will humble your souls; it is an eonian statute. 32 The priest whom one is anointing and whose hands one is filling to serve as priest instead of his father, will make a propitiatory shelter. He will put on the linen garments, the holy garments, 33 and make a propitiatory shelter over the holy sanctuary. Over the tent of appointment and the altar shall he make a propitiatory shelter; over the priests and over all the people of the assembly shall he make a propitiatory shelter. 34 This will come to be for you as an eonian statute to make a propitiatory shelter over the sons of Israel because of all their sins, once a year. And he did just as Yahweh had instructed Moses.