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Approach the altar,” Moses then told Aaron, “and make your purification offering and your burnt offering in atonement for yourself and for your household;[a] then make the offering of the people in atonement for them, as the Lord has commanded.”(A)

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  1. 9:7 For your household: unlike the Septuagint, the Hebrew reads be‘ad ha‘am, “for the people.”

Moses said to Aaron, “Come to the altar and sacrifice your sin offering and your burnt offering and make atonement for yourself and the people;(A) sacrifice the offering that is for the people and make atonement for them, as the Lord has commanded.(B)

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15 Then he shall slaughter the goat of the people’s purification offering, and bringing its blood inside the veil, he shall do with it as he did with the bull’s blood, sprinkling it on the ark’s cover and in front of it. 16 Thus he shall purge the inner sanctuary[a] of all the Israelites’ impurities and trespasses, including all their sins. He shall do the same for the tent of meeting,(A) which is set up among them in the midst of their uncleanness. 17 No one else may be in the tent of meeting from the time he enters the inner sanctuary to make atonement until he departs. When he has made atonement for himself and his household, as well as for the whole Israelite assembly,

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  1. 16:16 Inner sanctuary: this refers to the most holy room (vv. 2, 11–15). Trespasses, including all their sins: the term for “trespasses” (Heb. pesha‘im), which has overtones of rebellion, and the phrase “all their sins” indicate that even sins committed intentionally are included (such as when the sinner “acts defiantly,” as in Nm 15:30–31). This complements the scheme found in Lv 4 (see note on 4:3): intentional sins pollute the sanctuary more and penetrate even further than inadvertent sins, namely to the most holy place. The same for the tent of meeting: this rite may be that found in 4:5–7, 16–18 where blood is sprinkled in the anterior room and blood is placed on the horns of the incense altar there. Cf. Ex 30:10.

15 “He shall then slaughter the goat for the sin offering for the people(A) and take its blood behind the curtain(B) and do with it as he did with the bull’s blood: He shall sprinkle(C) it on the atonement cover and in front of it. 16 In this way he will make atonement(D) for the Most Holy Place(E) because of the uncleanness and rebellion of the Israelites, whatever their sins have been. He is to do the same for the tent of meeting,(F) which is among them in the midst of their uncleanness. 17 No one is to be in the tent of meeting from the time Aaron goes in to make atonement in the Most Holy Place until he comes out, having made atonement for himself, his household and the whole community of Israel.

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30 For on this day atonement is made for you to make you clean; of all your sins you will be cleansed before the Lord.

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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)

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34 This, then, shall be an everlasting statute for you: once a year atonement shall be made on behalf of the Israelites for all their sins. And Moses did as the Lord had commanded him.

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34 “This is to be a lasting ordinance(A) for you: Atonement is to be made once a year(B) for all the sins of the Israelites.”

And it was done, as the Lord commanded Moses.

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