Leviticus 16:3

THE MESSAGE

"This is the procedure for Aaron when he enters the Holy Place: He will bring a young bull for an Absolution-Offering and a ram for a Whole-Burnt-Offering; he will put on the holy linen tunic and the linen underwear, tie the linen sash around him, and put on the linen turban. These are the sacred vestments so he must bathe himself with water before he puts them on. Then from the Israelite community he will bring two male goats for an Absolution-Offering and a Whole-Burnt-Offering.

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
"Herewith shall Aharon come into the sanctuary: with a young bull for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering.

King James Version
Thus shall Aaron come into the holy place: with a young bullock for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering.

Lexham English Bible
"Aaron must enter the sanctuary with this: a young bull as a sin offering and a ram as a burnt offering.

New Century Version
"This is how Aaron may enter the Most Holy Place: Before he enters, he must offer a bull for a sin offering and a male sheep for a whole burnt offering.

New English Translation
"In this way Aaron is to enter into the sanctuary—with a young bull for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering.

Amplified Bible
"Aaron [as high priest] shall enter the Holy Place in this way: with [the blood of] a young bull as a sin offering and [the blood of] a ram as a burnt offering.

New American Standard Bible
"Aaron shall enter the Holy Place with this: with a bull as a sin offering and a ram as a burnt offering.

Geneva Bible (1587)
After this sort shall Aaron come into the Holy place: euen with a yong bullocke for a sinne offring, and a ramme for a burnt offring.

Legacy Standard Bible
Aaron shall enter the holy place with this: with a bull from the herd for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering.

Contemporary English Version
Before entering this most holy place, you must offer a bull as a sacrifice for your sins and a ram as a sacrifice to please me.

Complete Jewish Bible
"Here is how Aharon is to enter the Holy Place: with a young bull as a sin offering and a ram as a burnt offering.

Darby Translation
In this manner shall Aaron come into the sanctuary: with a young bullock for a sin-offering, and a ram for a burnt-offering.

Easy-to-Read Version
"Before Aaron enters the Most Holy Place, he will offer a bull for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering.

English Standard Version
But in this way Aaron shall come into the Holy Place: with a bull from the herd for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering.

George Lamsa Translation
Thus shall Aaron come into the holy place: with a young bullock for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering.

Good News Translation
He may enter the Most Holy Place only after he has brought a young bull for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering."

Christian Standard Bible®
“Aaron is to enter the most holy place in this way: with a young bull for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering.

Literal Translation
With this Aaron shall come into the sanctuary: with a bull, a son of the herd, for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
But herewithall shal he go in, euen with a yonge bullocke for a synofferynge, and with a ramme for a burntofferynge,

American Standard Version
Herewith shall Aaron come into the holy place: with a young bullock for a sin-offering, and a ram for a burnt-offering.

Bible in Basic English
Let Aaron come into the holy place in this way: with an ox for a sin-offering and a male sheep for a burned offering.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
But with this thyng shal Aaron come into the holy place: euen with a young bullocke for a sinne offeryng, and with a ramme for a burnt offeryng.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Herewith shall Aaron come into the holy place: with a young bullock for a sin-offering, and a ram for a burnt-offering.

King James Version (1611)
Thus shall Aaron come into the Holy place: with a yong bullocke for a sinne offering, and a ramme for a burnt offering.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Thus shall Aaron enter into the holy place; with a calf of the herd for a sin-offering, and having a ram for a whole-burnt-offering.

English Revised Version
Herewith shall Aaron come into the holy place: with a young bullock for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering.

Berean Standard Bible
This is how Aaron is to enter the Holy Place: with a young bull for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
`no but he do these thingis bifore. He schal offer a calf for synne, and a ram in to brent sacrifice;

Young's Literal Translation
`With this doth Aaron come in unto the sanctuary; with a bullock, a son of the herd, for a sin-offering, and a ram for a burnt-offering;

Update Bible Version
Herewith shall Aaron come into the holy place: with a young bull for a sin-offering, and a ram for a burnt-offering.

Webster's Bible Translation
Thus shall Aaron come into the holy [place]: with a young bullock for a sin-offering, and a ram for a burnt-offering.

World English Bible
Herewith shall Aaron come into the holy place: with a young bull for a sin-offering, and a ram for a burnt offering.

New King James Version
"Thus Aaron shall come into the Holy Place: with the blood of a young bull as a sin offering, and of a ram as a burnt offering.

New Living Translation
"When Aaron enters the sanctuary area, he must follow these instructions fully. He must bring a young bull for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering.

New Life Bible
Only this way will Aaron go into the holy place, with a bull for a sin gift and a ram for a burnt gift.

New Revised Standard
Thus shall Aaron come into the holy place: with a young bull for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Herewith, shall Aaron come into the holy place, - With a bullock the choice of the herd as a sin-bearer, and a ram as an ascending-sacrifice.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Unless he first do these things. He shall offer a calf for sin, and a ram for a holocaust.

Revised Standard Version
But thus shall Aaron come into the holy place: with a young bull for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Aaron shall enter the holy place with this: with a bull for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering.

Contextual Overview

¹After the death of Aaron's two sons—they died when they came before God with strange fire— God spoke to Moses: "Tell your brother Aaron not to enter into the Holy of Holies, barging inside the curtain that's before the Atonement-Cover on the Chest whenever he feels like it, lest he die, because I am present in the Cloud over the Atonement-Cover. ³"This is the procedure for Aaron when he enters the Holy Place: He will bring a young bull for an Absolution-Offering and a ram for a Whole-Burnt-Offering; he will put on the holy linen tunic and the linen underwear, tie the linen sash around him, and put on the linen turban. These are the sacred vestments so he must bathe himself with water before he puts them on. Then from the Israelite community he will bring two male goats for an Absolution-Offering and a Whole-Burnt-Offering.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Aaron: Hebrews 9:7, Hebrews 9:12, Hebrews 9:24, Hebrews 9:25

a young: Leviticus 4:3, Leviticus 8:14, Numbers 29:7-11

a ram for a burnt offering: Leviticus 1:3, Leviticus 1:10, Leviticus 8:18, Leviticus 9:3

Reciprocal: Exodus 29:1 - Take Exodus 29:14 - it is a Leviticus 16:11 - General Leviticus 16:24 - his burnt Numbers 8:8 - another Numbers 29:11 - beside

Cross-References

Genesis 16:1
Sarai, Abram's wife, hadn't yet produced a child. She had an Egyptian maid named Hagar. Sarai said to Abram, " God has not seen fit to let me have a child. Sleep with my maid. Maybe I can get a family from her." Abram agreed to do what Sarai said.

Genesis 16:5
Sarai told Abram, "It's all your fault that I'm suffering this abuse. I put my maid in bed with you and the minute she knows she's pregnant, she treats me like I'm nothing. May God decide which of us is right."

Genesis 30:9
When Leah saw that she wasn't having any more children, she gave her maid Zilpah to Jacob for a wife. Zilpah had a son for Jacob. Leah said, "How fortunate!" and she named him Gad (Lucky). When Leah's maid Zilpah had a second son for Jacob, Leah said, "A happy day! The women will congratulate me in my happiness." So she named him Asher (Happy).

Genesis 32:22
But during the night he got up and took his two wives, his two maidservants, and his eleven children and crossed the ford of the Jabbok. He got them safely across the brook along with all his possessions.

2 Samuel 5:13
David took on more concubines and wives from Jerusalem after he left Hebron. And more sons and daughters were born to him. These are the names of those born to him in Jerusalem: Shammua, Shobab, Nathan, Solomon, Ibhar, Elishua, Nepheg, Japhia, Elishama, Eliada, Eliphelet.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Thus shall Aaron come into the holy [place],.... The most holy place; and this was after he had offered the daily sacrifice of the morning, and had performed the rest of the service then done, as Gersom observes; such as burning the incense and trimming the lamps, for no offering preceded the daily sacrifice:

with a young bullock for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering; which were both for himself and his family; and such were the weakness, imperfection, and insufficiency of the Levitical priesthood, and priests, that they were obliged first to offer for their own sins, and then for the sins of the people: the meaning is not, as Aben Ezra says, that he should bring the bullock into the holy place, only that he should first give of his own a bullock for a sin offering, to atone for himself, and for the priests; nor could it be the body of the bullock he brought, only the blood of it into the most holy place, where he entered not without blood, first with the blood of the bullock, and then with the blood of the goat; for the body of the bullock for a sin offering was burnt without the camp, and the body of the ram for the burnt offering was burnt upon the altar of burnt offering; see Hebrews 9:7.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Holy place - This name here denotes the sanctuary, the whole sacred enclosure, the court of the tabernacle. The offerings were for Aaron and his sons, supplied by himself.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Leviticus 16:3. With a young bullock for a sin-offering — The bullock was presented as a sin-offering for himself, his family, the whole priesthood, and probably the Levites. The ram was for a burnt-offering, to signify that he and his associates were wholly consecrated, and to be wholly employed in this work of the ministry. The ceremonies with which these two sacrifices were accompanied are detailed in the following verses.