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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Leviticus 16 Catholic Public Domain Version</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/leviticus/16.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/leviticus/16-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">CPDV</a> > Leviticus 16</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../leviticus/15.htm" title="Leviticus 15">◄</a> Leviticus 16 <a href="../leviticus/17.htm" title="Leviticus 17">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Catholic Public Domain Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/leviticus/16-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">The Day of Atonement<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../leviticus/23.htm#26">Leviticus 23:26–32</a>; <a href ="../numbers/29.htm#7">Numbers 29:7–11</a>)</span><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/16-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>And the Lord spoke to Moses, after the death of the two sons of Aaron, when they were destroyed for offering strange fire. <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/16-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>And he instructed him, saying: Speak to your brother Aaron, so that he may not, at any time, enter into the Sanctuary, which is within the veil, before the propitiatory by which the ark is covered, so that he may not die, (for I will appear in a cloud above the oracle) <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/16-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>unless he will have done these things beforehand. He shall offer a calf for sin, and a ram as a holocaust. <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/16-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>He shall be vested with a linen tunic. He shall conceal his nakedness with linen undergarments. He shall be wrapped with a linen belt, and he shall impose a linen headdress on his head. For these are holy vestments. All of these he shall put on, after he has been washed. <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/16-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And he shall receive, from the entire multitude of the sons of Israel, two he-goats for sin, and one ram as a holocaust. <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/16-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And when he has presented the calf, and has prayed for himself and for his own house, <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/16-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>he shall cause the two he-goats to stand in the sight of the Lord at the entrance to the tabernacle of the testimony. <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/16-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And casting lots over them both, one is to be offered to the Lord, and the other is to be the emissary goat. <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/16-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>The one whose lot fell out to be offered to the Lord, he shall offer for sin. <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/16-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>But the one who is to be the emissary goat shall stand before the Lord, so that he may pour the prayers upon him, and may send him away into the wilderness.<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/16-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>After these things have been duly celebrated, he shall offer the calf, and praying for himself and for his own house, he shall immolate it. <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/16-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And taking up the censer, which he has filled from the burning coals of the altar, and drawing up with his hands the aromatic compound for incense, he shall enter within the veil, into the holy place, <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/16-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>so that when the aromatics are placed upon the fire, its cloud and vapor may cover the oracle, which is above the testimony, and he may not die. <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/16-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Likewise, he shall take some of the blood of the calf, and sprinkle it with his finger seven times opposite the propitiatory, toward the east.<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/16-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And when he has slain the he-goat for the sin of the people, he shall carry its blood within the veil, just as he was instructed to do with the blood of the calf, so that he may sprinkle it away from the area of the oracle, <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/16-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>and so that he may expiate the Sanctuary from the uncleanness of the sons of Israel, and from their prevarications and every one of their sins. According to this rite, he shall act toward the tabernacle of the testimony, which is fixed among them in the midst of the filth of their habitation. <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/16-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Let no man be in the tabernacle when the high priest enters the Sanctuary in order to pray for himself, and for his house, and for the entire assembly of Israel, until he exits. <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/16-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And when he has exited to the altar which is before the Lord, let him pray for himself, and taking the blood of the calf, and of the he-goat, let him pour it upon its horns all around. <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/16-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>And sprinkling with his finger seven times, let him expiate and sanctify it from the uncleanness of the sons of Israel.<p> <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/16-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>After he has cleansed the Sanctuary, and the tabernacle, and the altar, then let him offer the living goat. <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/16-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>And placing both hands upon its head, let him confess all the iniquities of the sons of Israel, and all of their offenses and sins. And calling these down upon its head, he shall send it away, by means of a man prepared to do so, into the desert. <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/16-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>And when the goat has carried all their iniquities into a solitary land, and has been released into the desert,<p> <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/16-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Aaron shall return into the tabernacle of the testimony. And placing aside the vestments, which he had worn before when he entered into the Sanctuary, and leaving them there, <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/16-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>he shall wash his flesh in the holy place, and he shall be clothed in his own garments. And departing afterwards, he shall present his own holocaust and that of the people: he shall pray as much for himself as for the people. <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/16-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>And the fat which is offered for sins, he shall burn upon the altar. <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/16-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Yet truly, he who has sent away the emissary goat shall wash his clothes and his body with water, and so he shall enter into the camp. <A name="28"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/16-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>But the calf and the he-goat, which were immolated for sin, and whose blood was brought into the Sanctuary to complete the expiation, these shall be carried outside the camp and be burned with fire: as with their skins, so also with their flesh and dung. <A name="29"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/16-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>And whoever will have burned them shall wash his clothes and flesh with water, and so he shall enter into the camp.<p> <A name="30"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/16-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>And this shall be to you an everlasting ordinance. In the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you shall afflict your souls, and you shall do no work, neither someone native born, nor the newcomer who sojourns among you. <A name="31"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/16-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>On this day, there shall be atonement for you, and also a cleansing from all your sins. You shall be cleansed in the sight of the Lord. <A name="32"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/16-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>For it is a Sabbath of rest, and you shall afflict your souls as a perpetual observance. <A name="33"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/16-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>And the priest who has been anointed, and whose hands have been consecrated to exercise the priesthood in the place of his father, shall make atonement. And he shall be clothed with the linen robe and the holy vestments. <A name="34"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/16-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>And he shall expiate the Sanctuary and the tabernacle of the testimony and the altar, likewise the priest and all the people. <span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/16-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>And this shall be to you a perpetual law, that you pray for the sons of Israel, and for all their sins once a year. 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