Add parallel Print Page Options

(A) Before entering this most holy place, you must offer a bull as a sacrifice for your sins[a] and a ram as a sacrifice to please me.[b] You will take a bath and put on the sacred linen clothes, including the underwear, the robe, the sash, and the turban. Then the community of Israel will bring you a ram and two goats, both of them males. The goats are to be used as sacrifices for sin, and the ram is to be used as a sacrifice to please me.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. 16.3 for your sins: See 4.3-12.
  2. 16.3 sacrifice to please me: See the note at 1.1-3.

“This is how Aaron is to enter the Most Holy Place:(A) He must first bring a young bull(B) for a sin offering[a] and a ram for a burnt offering.(C) He is to put on the sacred linen tunic,(D) with linen undergarments next to his body; he is to tie the linen sash around him and put on the linen turban.(E) These are sacred garments;(F) so he must bathe himself with water(G) before he puts them on.(H) From the Israelite community(I) he is to take two male goats(J) for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 16:3 Or purification offering; here and throughout this chapter