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the Holy Sanctuary, and he shall make atone-
ment for the tabernacle of meeting and for the
altar, and he shall make atonement for the
16:20–22 This “sin offering of atonement” priests and for all the people of the assembly.
(Num. 29:11) portrayed Christ’s substitution- 34 This shall be an everlasting statute for you, to
ary sacrifice (vv.21,22) with the result that the make atonement for the children of Israel, for
sinner’s sins were removed (v. 22). Christ lived all their sins, once a year.” And he did as the
out this representation when He cried from LORD commanded Moses.
the cross,“My God, My God, why have You for-
saken Me?”(Matt. 27:46). Psalm 26:6–12
6 I will wash my hands in innocence;
So I will go about Your altar, O LORD,
23 “Then Aaron shall come into the taberna- 7 That I may proclaim with the voice
cle of meeting, shall take off the linen gar- of thanksgiving,
ments which he put on when he went into the And tell of all Your wondrous works.
Holy Place, and shall leave them there. And 8 LORD, I have loved the habitation
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he shall wash his body with water in a holy of Your house,
place, put on his garments, come out and offer And the place where Your glory dwells.
his burnt offering and the burnt offering of 9
the people, and make atonement for himself Do not gather my soul with sinners,
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and for the people. The fat of the sin offering 10 Nor my life with bloodthirsty men,
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he shall burn on the altar. And he who In whose hands is a sinister scheme,
released the goat as the scapegoat shall wash And whose right hand is full of bribes.
his clothes and bathe his body in water, and 11 But as for me, I will walk in
afterward he may come into the camp. The my integrity;
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bull for the sin offering and the goat for the sin Redeem me and be merciful to me.
offering, whose blood was brought in to make 12 My foot stands in an even place;
atonement in the Holy Place, shall be carried In the congregations I will bless
outside the camp. And they shall burn in the the LORD.
fire their skins, their flesh, and their offal.
28 Then he who burns them shall wash his Proverbs 10:8
clothes and bathe his body in water, and after- 8 The wise in heart will receive
ward he may come into the camp. commands,
29 “This shall be a statute forever for you: In But a prating fool will fall.
the seventh month, on the tenth day of the
month, you shall afflict your souls, and do no Mark 4:1–20
work at all, whether a native of your own coun- And again He began to teach by the sea.
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try or a stranger who dwells among you. For 4 And a great multitude was gathered to
on that day the priest shall make atonement for Him, so that He got into a boat and sat in it on
you, to cleanse you, that you may be clean from the sea; and the whole multitude was on the
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all your sins before the LORD. It is a sabbath of land facing the sea. Then He taught them
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solemn rest for you, and you shall afflict your many things by parables, and said to them in
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souls. It is a statute forever. And the priest, His teaching:
who is anointed and consecrated to minister as 3 “Listen! Behold, a sower went out to sow.
priest in his father’s place, shall make atone- 4 And it happened, as he sowed, that some seed
ment, and put on the linen clothes, the holy fell by the wayside; and the birds of the air
garments; then he shall make atonement for came and devoured it. Some fell on stony
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ground, where it did not have much earth; and
immediately it sprang up because it had no
16:30 clean from all your sins.(See Ps.
103:12; Is. 38:17; Mic. 7:19.) This day provided
ceremonial cleansing for one year, and pic-
tured the forgiveness of God available to all 4:2 parables. A common method of teaching
who believed and repented. Actual atone- in Judaism, which Jesus employed to conceal
ment was based on cleansing through the the truth from unbelievers while explaining it
sacrifice of Christ (see Rom.3:25,26; Heb.9:15). to His disciples.

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