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¹ And Yahweh spoke to Moses, after the death of the two sons of Aaron, when they drew near before Yahweh, and died;² and Yahweh said to Moses, Speak to Aaron your brother, that he does not come at all times into the holy place inside the veil, before the mercy-seat which is on the ark; that he will not die: for I will appear in the cloud on the mercy-seat.³ Herewith shall Aaron come into the holy place: with a young bull for a sin-offering, and a ram for a burnt-offering.⁴ He shall put on the holy linen coat, and he shall have the linen breeches on his flesh, and shall be girded with the linen girdle, and with the linen turban he shall be attired: they are the holy garments; and he shall bathe his flesh in water, and put them on.

⁵ And he shall take of the congregation of the sons of Israel two he-goats for a sin-offering, and one ram for a burnt-offering.⁶ And Aaron shall present the bull of the sin-offering, which is for himself, and make atonement for himself, and for his house.⁷ And he shall take the two goats, and set them before Yahweh at the door of the tent of meeting.⁸ And Aaron shall cast lots on the two goats; one lot for Yahweh, and the other lot for Azazel.⁹ And Aaron shall present the goat on which the lot fell for Yahweh, and offer him for a sin-offering.¹⁰ But the goat, on which the lot fell for Azazel, shall be set alive before Yahweh, to make atonement for him, to send him away for Azazel into the wilderness.¹¹ And Aaron shall present the bull of the sin-offering, which is for himself, and shall make atonement for himself, and for his house, and shall kill the bull of the sin-offering which is for himself:¹² and he shall take a censer full of coals of fire from off the altar before Yahweh, and his hands full of sweet incense beaten small, and bring it inside the veil:¹³ and he shall put the incense on the fire before Yahweh, that the cloud of the incense may cover the mercy-seat that is on the testimony, that he will not die:¹⁴ and he shall take of the blood of the bull, and sprinkle it with his finger on the mercy-seat on the east; and before the mercy-seat he shall sprinkle of the blood with his finger seven times.

¹⁵ Then he shall kill the goat of the sin-offering, that is for the people, and bring his blood inside the veil, and do with his blood as he did with the blood of the bull, and sprinkle it on the mercy-seat, and before the mercy-seat:¹⁶ and he shall make atonement for the holy place, because of the uncleannesses of the sons of Israel, and because of their transgressions, even all their sins: and so he shall do for the tent of meeting, that dwells with them in the midst of their uncleannesses.¹⁷ And there shall not be any of man in the tent of meeting when he goes in to make atonement in the holy place, until he comes out, and makes atonement for himself, and for his household, and for all the assembly of Israel.¹⁸ And he shall go out to the altar that is before Yahweh, and make atonement for it, and shall take of the blood of the bull, and of the blood of the goat, and put it on the horns of the altar round about.¹⁹ And he shall sprinkle of the blood on it with his finger seven times, and cleanse it, and hallow it from the uncleannesses of the sons of Israel.

²⁰ And when he has made an end of atoning for the holy place, and the tent of meeting, and the altar, he shall present the live goat:²¹ and Aaron shall lay both his hands on the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the sons of Israel, and all their transgressions, even all their sins; and he shall put them on the head of the goat, and shall send him away by the hand of a man that is in readiness into the wilderness:²² and the goat shall bear on him all their iniquities to a solitary land: and he shall let the goat go into the wilderness.²³ And Aaron shall come into the tent of meeting, and shall put off the linen garments, which he put on when he went into the holy place, and shall leave them there:²⁴ and he shall bathe his flesh in water in a holy place, and put on his garments, and come forth, and offer his burnt-offering and the burnt-offering of the people, and make atonement for himself and for the people.²⁵ And the fat of the sin-offering he shall burn on the altar.²⁶ And he that lets the goat go for Azazel shall wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp.²⁷ And the bull of the sin-offering, and the goat of the sin-offering, whose blood was brought in to make atonement in the holy place, shall be carried forth outside the camp; and they shall burn in the fire their skins, and their flesh, and their dung.²⁸ And he that burns them shall wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp.

²⁹ And it shall be a statute forever to you: in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you shall afflict your souls, and shall do no manner of work, the home-born, or the stranger that sojourns among you:³⁰ for on this day atonement shall be made for you, to cleanse you; from all your sins you shall be clean before Yahweh.³¹ It is a Sabbath of solemn rest to you, and you shall afflict your souls; it is a statute forever.³² And the priest, who shall be anointed and who shall be consecrated to be priest in his father's stead, shall make the atonement, and shall put on the linen garments, even the holy garments:³³ and he shall make atonement for the holy sanctuary; and he shall make atonement for the tent of meeting and for the altar; and he shall make atonement for the priests and for all the people of the assembly.³⁴ And this shall be an everlasting statute to you, to make atonement for the sons of Israel because of all their sins once in the year. And he did as Yahweh commanded Moses.