Leviticus 16 · Parashat Achrei Mot

And the Lord spoke to Moshe after the death of the two sons of Aharon, when they came near before the Lord, and died;

and the Lord said to Moshe, Speak to Aharon thy brother, that he come not at all times into the holy place within the veil before the covering, which is upon the ark; that he die not: for I appear in the cloud upon the ark cover.

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

He shall put on the holy linen coat, and he shall have the linen breeches upon his flesh, and shall be girded with a linen girdle, and with the linen mitre shall he be attired: these are holy garments; therefore shall he bathe his flesh in water, and so put them on.

And he shall take from the congregation of the children of Yisra᾽el two kids of the goats for a sin offering, and one ram for a burnt offering.

And Aharon shall offer the bullock of the sin offering, which is for himself, and make atonement for himself, and for his house.

And he shall take the two goats, and present them before the Lord at the door of the Tent of Meeting.

And Aharon shall cast lots upon the two goats; one lot for the Lord, and the other lot for ῾Azazel.

And Aharon shall bring the goat upon which the Lord’s lot fell, and offer it for a sin offering.

But the goat, on which the lot fell for ῾Azazel, shall be presented alive before the Lord, to make atonement over him, and to let him go to ῾Azazel into the wilderness.

And Aharon shall bring the bullock of the sin offering, which is for himself, and shall make atonement for himself, and for his house, and shall kill the bullock of the sin offering which is for himself:

and he shall take a censer full of burning coals of fire from off the altar before the Lord, and his hands full of sweet incense beaten small, and bring it inside the veil:

and he shall put the incense upon the fire before the Lord, that the cloud of the incense may cover the covering that is upon the Testimony, that he die not:

and he shall take of the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it with his finger upon the covering eastward; and before the covering shall he sprinkle of the blood with his finger seven times.

Then shall he kill the goat of the sin offering, that is for the people, and bring its blood within the veil, and do with that blood as he did with the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it upon the covering, and before the covering:

and he shall make atonement for the holy place, because of the uncleanness of the children of Yisra᾽el, and because of their transgressions in all their sins: and so shall he do for the Tent of Meeting, that remains among them in the midst of their uncleanness.

And there shall be no man in the Tent of Meeting when he goes in to make atonement in the holy place, until he comes out, and have made atonement for himself, and for his household, and for all the congregation of Yisra᾽el.

And he shall go out to the altar that is before the Lord, and make atonement for it; and shall take of the blood of the bullock, and of the blood of the goat, and put it upon the horns of the altar round about.

And he shall sprinkle of the blood upon it with his finger seven times, and cleanse it, and hallow it from the uncleanness of the children of Yisra᾽el.

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:

and Aharon shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Yisra᾽el, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat, and shall send him away by the hand of an appointed man into the wilderness:

and the goat shall bear upon it all their iniquities to a barren land: and he shall let go the goat in the wilderness.

And Aharon 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:

and he shall wash his flesh with water in the 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.

And the fat of the sin offering shall he burn upon the altar.

And he that let go the goat for ῾Azazel shall wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in water, and afterwards come into the camp.

And the bullock for the sin offering, and the goat for the sin offering, whose blood was brought in to make atonement in the holy place, shall be taken outside the camp; and they shall burn in the fire their skins, and their flesh, and their dung.

And he that burns them shall wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in water, and afterwards he shall come into the camp.

And this shall be a statute for ever to you: that in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you shall afflict your souls, and do no work at all, the home born or the stranger that sojourns among you:

for on that day will he forgive you, to cleanse you, that you may be clean from all your sins before the Lord.

It shall be a sabbath of solemn rest to you, and you shall afflict your souls, by a statute forever.

And the priest, who shall be anointed, and who shall be consecrated to minister in the priest’s office in his father’s stead, shall make the atonement, and shall put on the linen clothes, the holy garments:

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 congregation.

And this shall be an everlasting statute to you, to make atonement for the children of Yisra᾽el for all their sins once a year. And he did as the Lord commanded Moshe.