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 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:
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 priest's office in his father's 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.
