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"And he shall slaughter the sin offering's goat, which is for the people, and he shall bring its blood from behind the curtain, and he shall do with its blood as that which he did with the bull's blood, and he shall spatter it on the atonement cover and before the atonement cover.

Thus he shall make atonement for the sanctuary from the Israelites' impurities and from their transgressions for all their sins; and so he must do for the tent of assembly, which dwells with them in the midst of their impurities.

And no person shall be in the tent of assembly when he enters to make atonement in the sanctuary until he comes out, and so he shall make atonement for himself and for his family and for all of Israel's assembly.

"Then he shall go out to the altar that is before Yahweh, and he shall make atonement for it; and he shall take some of the bull's blood and some of the goat's blood, and he shall put it all around on the altar's horns.

"And he shall finish making atonement for the sanctuary and the tent of assembly and the altar; then he shall present the living goat.

And Aaron shall place his two hands on the living goat's head, and he shall confess over it all the Israelites' iniquities and all their transgressions for all their sins, and he shall put them on the goat's head, and he shall send it away into the desert with a man standing ready.

And he shall wash his body with water in a holy place, and he shall put on his garments and go out and sacrifice his burnt offering and the people's burnt offering, and so he shall make atonement for himself and for people.

"And the person who sends out the goat for Azazel shall wash his garments, and he shall wash his body with water, and afterward he shall come to the camp.

"And this shall be a lasting statute for you: in the seventh month, on the tenth of the month, you must deny yourselves and you must not do any work, whether the native or the alien who is dwelling in your midst,

because on this day he shall make atonement for you to cleanse you; you must be clean from all your sins before Yahweh.

It is a Sabbath of complete rest for you, and you shall deny yourselves—it is a lasting statute.

and he shall make atonement for the sanctuary's holy place, and he shall make atonement for the tent of assembly and the altar, and he shall make atonement for the priests and for all of the assembly's people.

And this shall be a lasting statute for you to make atonement for the Israelites one time in a year from all their sins."

This is so that the Israelites may bring their sacrifices that they are sacrificing in the open field and bring them for Yahweh to the tent of assembly's entrance to the priest, and they shall sacrifice fellowship offerings for Yahweh with them.

And the priest shall sprinkle the blood on Yahweh's altar at the tent of assembly's entrance, and he shall burn the fat as an appeasing fragrance for Yahweh.

And they may no longer sacrifice their sacrifices to the goat-idols after which they were prostituting. This is a lasting statute for them throughout their generations."'

and he does not bring it to the tent of assembly's entrance to sacrifice it for Yahweh, then that man shall be cut off from his people.

Indeed the flesh's life is in the blood, and I have given it to you on the altar to make atonement for your lives, because it is the blood with the life that makes atonement.

As for your sister's nakedness, whether your father's daughter or your mother's daughter, whether born at home or born abroad, you must not expose their nakedness.

As for the nakedness of your son's daughter or your daughter's daughter, you must not expose their nakedness, because they are your nakedness.