| Event |
Scripture |
| The high priest would bring a
young bull for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt
offering. |
Lev 16:3 |
| He would bathe himself and put on
the sacred garment of linen coat, trousers, belt and turban.
Note that this was not the same elaborate garment that the
high priest wore on other regular days. It was plain white
linen without any golden threads to bear any trace of the
golden calf worship. |
Lev 16:4 |
| The people of Israel would then
bring to the high priest two male goats for their sin
offering and a ram for their burnt offering. |
Lev 16:5 |
| The high priest would first
present to the LORD at the Entrance the young bull as a sin
offering for himself, making atonement for himself and his
household. |
Lev 16:6 |
| He would then present the two
goats before the LORD at the Entrance, making atonement for
the people of Israel. |
Lev 16:7 |
| Lots were cast to determine which
goat was the LORD’s, and which was to be sent away. |
Lev 16:8 |
| The goat allotted to the LORD
would be sacrificed as a sin offering for the people. |
Lev 16:9 |
| The other goat would be kept
alive and placed before the LORD. The rite of atonement was
performed over it, and it would later be sent out into the
wilderness as a scapegoat. |
Lev 16:10 |
| The high priest would then
sacrifice and kill the young bull at Entrance as a sin
offering for himself and his household. All its blood would
be poured beside the bottom of the Brazen Altar in the Outer
Court. |
Lev 16:11,
Exo 29:11-12 |
| To prepare for his three entries
into the Holy of Holies, he took a censer full of burning
coals from the Altar Of Incense, which was before the Veil,
and two handfuls of finely ground fragrant incense. |
Lev 16:12 |
| He went inside the Veil.
|
Lev 16:12 |
| Before the Ark of His Presence,
the high priest would pour the incense unto the burning
coals. A cloud of incense would cover the Mercy Seat so that
he would not see the LORD and die. This was his first entry
to the Holy of Holies. |
Lev 16:13 |
| He exited the Most Holy Place and
went to the Brazen Altar to bring some of the bull’s blood
into the Holy of Holies. He would then sprinkle the blood of
the young bull upon the east side of the Mercy Seat, and
then seven times in front of it. This was his second entry
to the Holy of Holies. |
Lev 16:14 |
| He went out again to the Entrance
and sacrificed the goat for the sins of the people. All its
blood would be poured beside the bottom of the Brazen Altar
in the Outer Court. |
Lev 16:15 |
| He went back into the Veil, and
sprinkled the blood of the goat upon the Mercy Seat and in
front of it, just as he did for the bull sacrifice. This was
his third entry to the Holy of Holies. |
Lev 16:15 |
| He then made atonement for the
Holy of Holies because it was defiled by the sins of the
people of Israel, and for the Tabernacle as it was located
right among the tribes of Israel and was surrounded by their
defilement. |
Lev 16:16 |
| Not another soul would be inside
the Tabernacle when the high priest entered to make
atonement in the Holy of Holies – not until he came out
again after making atonement for himself, his household and
all the people of Israel. |
Lev 16:17 |
| Then he went out to the Altar of
Incense and made atonement for it. He would smear both
bloods of the young bull and the goat on the horns of the
Altar of Incense. |
Lev 16:18 |
| The high priest sprinkled blood
upon the Altar of Incense seven times with his finger, thus
cleansing it from the sinfulness of Israel and making it
holy. |
Lev 16:19,
Exo 30:10 |
| When he had completed the rite of
atonement for the Holy of Holies, the entire Tabernacle, and
the Altar of Incense, he would go out to the Entrance of the
Tabernacle. |
Lev 16:20 |
| He would bring the live goat and
lay both hands upon its head. He confessed over it all the
sins of the people of Israel. He would lay all their sins
upon the head of the goat, and send it into the desert, led
by a man appointed for the task. |
Lev 16:21 |
| So the goat would carry all the
sins of the people into a land where no one lived, and the
man would let it loose in the wilderness. |
Lev 16:22 |
| Then the high priest would go
into the Tabernacle again and take off the linen garments he
wore when he went behind the Veil, and leave them there in
the Tabernacle. |
Lev 16:23 |
| Then he would bathe in a sacred
place and put on his regular garments again. |
Lev 16:24 |
| He would go out to the Entrance
and sacrifice the two rams – the burnt offering for himself
and the burnt offering for the people to make atonement for
himself and for the people. Their blood would be sprinkled
around about upon the Brazen Altar. The rams were cut in
pieces. Their inwards were washed. The rams were then burnt
upon the Brazen Altar. The details of the two rams, one by
one, are found in Exodus 29:15-28. |
Lev 16:24,
Exo 29:15-28 |
| He would also burn upon the
Brazen Altar the fat for the sin offering. |
Lev 16:25 |
| The man who took the goat out
into the desert would afterwards wash his clothes and bathe
himself and then come back into the camp. |
Lev 16:26 |
| The young bull and the goat used
for the sin offering would be carried outside the camp and
burned, including the hides and internal organs. |
Lev 16:27 |
| Afterwards, the person doing the
burning would wash his clothes and bathe himself and then
return to camp. |
Lev 16:28 |
"This is to
be a lasting ordinance for you: On the tenth day of the seventh
month you must deny yourselves (fasting) and not do any work--
whether native-born or an alien living among you--because on
this day atonement will be made for you, to cleanse you. Then,
before the LORD, you will be clean from all your sins. It is a
sabbath of rest (Sabbath of Sabbaths), and
you must deny yourselves; it is a lasting
ordinance. The priest who is anointed and ordained to succeed
his father as high priest is to make atonement. He is to put on
the sacred linen garments and make atonement for the Most Holy
Place (Holy of Holies), for the Tent of Meeting (Tabernacle) and
the altar (Altar of Incense), and for the priests and all the
people of the community. This is to be a lasting ordinance for
you: Atonement is to be made once a year for all the
sins of the Israelites." And it was done, as the LORD
commanded Moses. Leviticus 16:29-34