Levítico 16

¹ Fvrthermore the Lord spake vnto Moses, after the death of the two sonnes of Aaron, whe they came to offer before the Lord, and dyed:

² And the LORD said unto Moses, Speak unto Aaron thy brother, that he come not atThe high priest entered into the holiest of holies just once a year in the month of September.all times into the holy [place] within the vail before the mercy seat, which [is] upon the ark; that he die not: for I will appear in the cloud upon the mercy seat.

³ After this sort shall Aaron come into the Holy place: euen with a yong bullocke for a sinne offring, and a ramme for a burnt offring.

⁴ He shal put on the holy linnen coate, and shal haue linnen breeches vpon his flesh, & shal be girded with a linnen girdle, and shal couer his head with a linnen miter: these are the holy garments: therefore shal hee wash his flesh in water, when he doeth put them on.

⁵ And hee shal take of the Congregation of the children of Israel, two hee goates for a sinne offring, and a ramme for a burnt offring.

⁶ Then Aaron shal offer the bullocke for his sinne offring, and make an atonement for himselfe, and for his house.

⁷ And he shal take the two hee goates, and present them before the Lord at the doore of the Tabernacle of the Congregation.

⁸ And Aaron shall cast lots upon the two goats; one lot for the LORD, and the other lot for theIn Hebrew it is called Azazel, which some say is a mountain near Sinai, where this goat was sent. Rather it is called the scapegoat because it was not offered but sent into the desert, as in (Lev_16:11).scapegoat.

⁹ And Aaron shal offer the goat, vpon which the Lords lot shal fal, & make him a sinne offring.

¹⁰ But the goate, on which the lot shal fall to be the Scape goate, shalbe presented aliue before the Lord, to make reconciliation by him, & to let him go (as a Scape goate) into the wildernes.

¹¹ Thus Aaron shal offer the bullocke for his sinne offring, and make a reconciliation for himselfe, and for his house, and shal kill the bullocke for his sinne offring.

¹² 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] within theThe holiest of holies.vail:

¹³ And shal put the incense vpon the fire before the Lorde, that the cloude of the incense may couer the Merciseat that is vpon the Testimonie: so he shal not dye.

¹⁴ And he shall take of the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle [it] with his finger upon the mercy seatThat is, on the side which was toward the people: for the head of the sanctuary stood westward.eastward; and before the mercy seat shall he sprinkle of the blood with his finger seven times.

¹⁵ Then shall he kill the goate that is the peoples sinne offring, and bring his blood within the vaile, and doe with that blood, as he did with the blood of the bullocke, and sprinckle it vpon the Merciseate, and before the Merciseate.

¹⁶ And he shall make an atonement for the holy [place], because of the uncleanness of the children of Israel, and because of their transgressions in all their sins: and so shall he do for the tabernacle of the congregation, thatPlaced among them who are unclean.remaineth among them in the midst of their uncleanness.

¹⁷ And there shalbe no man in the Tabernacle of the Congregation, when he goeth in to make an atonement in the Holy place, vntill hee come out, and haue made an atonement for himselfe, and for his housholde, and for all the Congregation of Israel.

¹⁸ And he shall go out unto theUpon which the sweet incense and perfume was offered.altar that [is] before the LORD, and make an 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.

¹⁹ So shal hee sprinkle of the blood vpon it with his finger seuen times, & clense it, & halowe it from the vncleannes of the children of Israel.

²⁰ When he hath made an ende of purging the Holy place, and the Tabernacle of the Congregation, and the altar, then he shall bring the liue goate:

²¹ And Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting themIn this goat is a true figure of Jesus Christ, who bears the sins of the people, (Isa_53:9).upon the head of the goat, and shall send [him] away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness:

²² So the goate shal beare vpon him all their iniquities into the land that is not inhabited, & he shal let the goate go into the wildernesse.

²³ After, Aaron shal come into the Tabernacle of the Congregation, and put off the linnen clothes, which he put on when he went into the Holy place, and leaue them there.

²⁴ And he shall wash his flesh with water inIn the court where the laver was, (Exo_30:28).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 an atonement for himself, and for the people.

²⁵ Also the fatte of the sinne offring shal he burne vpon the altar.

²⁶ And he that caried forth the goat, called the Scape goat, shal wash his clothes, & wash his flesh in water, and after that shal come into the hoste.

²⁷ Also the bullocke for the sinne offring, & the goate for the sinne offring (whose blood was brought to make a reconciliation in the Holy place) shal one carie out without the hoste to be burnt in the fire, with their skinnes, and with their flesh, and with their doung.

²⁸ And hee that burneth them shal wash his clothes, and wash his flesh in water, and afterward come into the hoste.

²⁹ And [this] shall be a statute for ever unto you: [that] in theWhich was Tisri, part September and part October.seventh month, on the tenth [day] of the month, ye shallMeaning, by abstinence and fasting, (Num_29:7).afflict your souls, and do no work at all, [whether it be] one of your own country, or a stranger that sojourneth among you:

³⁰ For that day shal ye Priest make an atonement for you to clense you: ye shalbe cleane from all your sinnes before the Lord.

³¹ It [shall be] aOr a rest which you shall keep most diligently.sabbath of rest unto you, and ye shall afflict your souls, by a statute for ever.

³² And the priest,Whom the priest shall anoint by God's commandment to succeed in his father's place.whom he shall anoint, and whom he shall consecrate to minister in the priest's office in his father's stead, shall make the atonement, and shall put on the linen clothes, [even] the holy garments:

³³ And shal purge the Holy Sanctuarie & the Tabernacle of the Congregation, and shal clense the altar, and make an atonement for the Priests and for all the people of the Congregation.

³⁴ And this shalbe an euerlasting ordinance vnto you, to make an atonement for the children of Israel for all their sinnes once a yeere: and as the Lord commanded Moses, he did.