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then she shall count for herself seven days,
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and after that she shall be clean. And on the
eighth day she shall take for herself two tur-
tledoves or two young pigeons, and bring 16:12 inside the veil. The veil separated all
them to the priest, to the door of the taberna- from the holy and consuming presence of
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cle of meeting. Then the priest shall offer the God.It was this veil in Herod’s temple that was
one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt torn open from top to bottom at the death of
offering, and the priest shall make atonement Christ, signifying access into God’s presence
for her before the LORD for the discharge of through Jesus Christ (see Matt. 27:51; Mark
her uncleanness. 15:38; Luke 23:45).
31 ‘Thus you shall separate the children of
Israel from their uncleanness, lest they die in
their uncleanness when they defile My taber- LORD, with his hands full of sweet incense
nacle that is among them. This is the law for beaten fine, and bring it inside the veil. And
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one who has a discharge, and for him who he shall put the incense on the fire before the
emits semen and is unclean thereby, and for LORD, that the cloud of incense may cover the
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her who is indisposed because of her custom- mercy seat that is on the Testimony, lest he
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ary impurity, and for one who has a discharge, die. He shall take some of the blood of the
either man or woman, and for him who lies bull and sprinkle it with his finger on the
with her who is unclean.’ ” mercy seat on the east side; and before the
Now the LORD spoke to Moses after the mercy seat he shall sprinkle some of the blood
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they offered profane fire before the LORD, and 15 “Then he shall kill the goat of the sin offer-
died; and the LORD said to Moses: “Tell Aaron ing, which is for the people, bring its blood in-
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your brother not to come at just any time into side the veil, do with that blood as he did with
the Holy Place inside the veil, before the mercy the blood of the bull, and sprinkle it on the
seat which is on the ark, lest he die; for I will mercy seat and before the mercy seat. So he
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appear in the cloud above the mercy seat. shall make atonement for the Holy Place,
3 “Thus Aaron shall come into the Holy Place: because of the uncleanness of the children of
with the blood of a young bull as a sin offering, Israel, and because of their transgressions, for
and of a ram as a burnt offering. He shall put all their sins; and so he shall do for the taber-
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the holy linen tunic and the linen trousers on nacle of meeting which remains among them
his body; he shall be girded with a linen sash, in the midst of their uncleanness. There shall
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and with the linen turban he shall be attired. be no man in the tabernacle of meeting when
These are holy garments. Therefore he shall he goes in to make atonement in the Holy
wash his body in water, and put them on. And Place, until he comes out, that he may make
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he shall take from the congregation of the atonement for himself, for his household, and
children of Israel two kids of the goats as a sin for all the assembly of Israel. And he shall go
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offering, and one ram as a burnt offering. out to the altar that is before the LORD, and
“Aaron shall offer the bull as a sin offering, make atonement for it, and shall take some of
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which is for himself, and make atonement for the blood of the bull and some of the blood of
himself and for his house. He shall take the the goat, and put it on the horns of the altar all
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two goats and present them before the LORD around. Then he shall sprinkle some of the
at the door of the tabernacle of meeting. Then blood on it with his finger seven times, cleanse
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Aaron shall cast lots for the two goats: one lot it, and consecrate it from the uncleanness of
for the LORD and the other lot for the scape- the children of Israel.
goat. And Aaron shall bring the goat on which 20 “And when he has made an end of atoning
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the LORD’s lot fell, and offer it as a sin offering. for the Holy Place, the tabernacle of meeting,
But the goat on which the lot fell to be the and the altar, he shall bring the live goat.
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scapegoat shall be presented alive before the 21 Aaron shall lay both his hands on the head of
LORD, to make atonement upon it, and to let it the live goat, confess over it all the iniquities
go as the scapegoat into the wilderness. of the children of Israel, and all their trans-
11 “And Aaron shall bring the bull of the sin gressions, concerning all their sins, putting
offering, which is for himself, and make atone- them on the head of the goat, and shall send it
ment for himself and for his house, and shall away into the wilderness by the hand of a suit-
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kill the bull as the sin offering which is for able man. The goat shall bear on itself all
himself. Then he shall take a censer full of their iniquities to an uninhabited land; and he
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burning coals of fire from the altar before the shall release the goat in the wilderness.
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