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30 for on this day atonement is to be made for you to cleanse you from all your sins; you must be clean before the Lord.[a] 31 It is to be a Sabbath of complete rest for you, and you must humble yourselves.[b] It is a perpetual statute.[c]

32 “The priest who is anointed and ordained to act as high priest in place of his father[d] is to make atonement. He is to put on the linen garments, the holy garments,

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  1. Leviticus 16:30 tn The phrase “from all your sins” could go with the previous clause as the verse is rendered here (see, e.g., B. A. Levine, Leviticus [JPSTC], 109, and J. Milgrom, Leviticus [AB], 1:1011), or it could go with the following clause (i.e., “you shall be clean from all your sins before the Lord”; see the MT accents as well as J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 221, and recent English versions, e.g., NASB, NIV, NRSV).
  2. Leviticus 16:31 tn See the note on v. 29 above.
  3. Leviticus 16:31 tn Cf. v. 29a above.
  4. Leviticus 16:32 tn Heb “And the priest whom he shall anointed him and whom he shall fill his hand to act as priest under his father.” Imperfect active verbs are often used as passives (see, e.g., v. 27 above and the note on Lev 14:4).