Study Desk

Two of Aaron's sons had already lost their lives for disobeying the Lord , so the Lord told Moses to say to Aaron: I, the Lord , appear in a cloud over the place of mercy on the sacred chest, which is behind the inside curtain of the sacred tent. And I warn you not to go there except at the proper time. Otherwise, you will die!

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.

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.

Aaron, you must offer the bull as a sacrifice of forgiveness for your own sins and for the sins of your family.

After you offer the first goat as a sacrifice for sin,

You must offer the bull as a sacrifice to ask forgiveness for your own sins and for the sins of your family.

Aaron, you must next sacrifice the goat for the sins of the people, and you must sprinkle its blood inside the most holy place, just as you did with the blood of the bull.

By doing this, you will take away the sins that make both the most holy place and the people of Israel unclean. Do the same for the sacred tent, which is here among the people.

Aaron, after this you must go inside the sacred tent, take a bath, put on your regular priestly clothes, and leave there the clothes you put on before entering the most holy place. Then you will come out and offer sacrifices to please me and sacrifices for your sins and for the sins of the people.

The fat from these sacrifices for sin must be sent up in smoke on the bronze altar.

The Lord told Moses to say to the people: On the tenth day of the seventh month of each year, you must go without eating to show sorrow for your sins, and no one, including foreigners who live among you, is allowed to work.

This is the day on which the sacrifice for the forgiveness of your sins will be made in my presence,

The high priest must offer the sacrifices for cleansing from sin, while wearing the sacred linen clothes.

He will offer these sacrifices for the most holy place, the sacred tent, the bronze altar, all the priests, and for the whole community.

You must celebrate this day each year—it is the Great Day of Forgiveness for all the sins of the people of Israel. Moses did exactly as the Lord had commanded.

If you don't take a bath, you will suffer for what you did wrong.

As long as your wife is alive, don't cause trouble for her by taking one of her sisters as a second wife.

It is disgusting for a man to have sex with another man.

Don't make yourselves unclean by any of these disgusting practices of those nations that I am forcing out of the land for you. They made themselves

In fact, you will be punished for not respecting what I say is holy, and you will no longer belong to the community of Israel.