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Leviticus 16:11-13
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Leviticus 16:11-13
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The Sin-Offering Sacrificial Procedures
11 “Aaron is to present the sin-offering bull which is for himself, and he is to make atonement on behalf of himself and his household. He is to slaughter the sin-offering bull which is for himself, 12 and take a censer full of coals of fire from the altar before the Lord[a] and a full double handful of finely ground fragrant incense,[b] and bring them inside the curtain.[c] 13 He must then put the incense on the fire before the Lord, and the cloud of incense will cover the atonement lid which is above the ark of the testimony,[d] so that he will not die.[e]
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- Leviticus 16:12 tn Heb “and he shall take the fullness of the censer, coals of fire, from on the altar from to the faces of the Lord.”
- Leviticus 16:12 tn Heb “and the fullness of the hollow of his two hands, finely ground fragrant incense.”
- Leviticus 16:12 tn Heb “and he shall bring from house to the curtain.”
- Leviticus 16:13 tn The text here has only “above the testimony,” but this is surely a shortened form of “above the ark of the testimony” (see Exod 25:22 etc.; cf. Lev 16:2). The term “testimony” in this expression refers to the ark as the container of the two stone tablets with the Ten Commandments written on them (see Exod 25:16 with Deut 10:1, 5, etc.).
- Leviticus 16:13 tn Heb “and he will not die,” but it is clear that the purpose for the incense cloud was to protect the priest from death in the presence of the Lord (cf. vv. 1-2 above).
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