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29-30 “This is a permanent law: You must do no work on the twenty-fifth day of September,[a] but must spend the day in self-examination and humility. This applies whether you are born in the land or are a foreigner living among the people of Israel; for this is the day commemorating the atonement, cleansing you in the Lord’s eyes from all of your sins. 31 It is a Sabbath of solemn rest for you, and you shall spend the day in quiet humility;[b] this is a permanent law. 32 This ceremony, in later generations, shall be performed by the anointed High Priest, consecrated in place of his ancestor Aaron; he shall be the one to put on the holy linen garments,

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Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 16:29 on the twenty-fifth day of September (which was “on the tenth day of the seventh month” of the Hebrew calendar).
  2. Leviticus 16:31 in quiet humility, or “in fasting.”

30 because on this day atonement will be made(A) for you, to cleanse you. Then, before the Lord, you will be clean from all your sins.(B) 31 It is a day of sabbath rest, and you must deny yourselves;(C) it is a lasting ordinance.(D) 32 The priest who is anointed and ordained(E) to succeed his father as high priest is to make atonement. He is to put on the sacred linen garments(F)

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