⁶“Aaron will present the bull for his sin offering and make atonement for himself and his household. ⁷Next he will take the two goats and place them before the Lord at the entrance to the tent of meeting. ⁸After Aaron casts lots^t for the two goats, one lot for the Lord and the other for an uninhabitable place,^a ⁹he is to present the goat chosen by lot for the Lord and sacrifice it as a sin offering.^b ¹⁰But the goat chosen by lot for an uninhabitable place is to be presented alive before the Lord to make atonement with it by sending it into the wilderness^c for an uninhabitable place.

¹¹“When Aaron presents the bull for his sin offering and makes atonement for himself and his household, he will slaughter the bull for his sin offering. ¹²Then he is to take a firepan full of blazing coals from the altar before the Lord and two handfuls of finely ground fragrant incense,^d and bring them inside the curtain.^e ¹³He is to put the incense on the fire before the Lord, so that the cloud^f of incense covers the mercy seat that is over the testimony,^g or else he will die.^h ¹⁴He is to take some of the bull’s bloodⁱ and sprinkle it with his finger against the east side of the mercy seat; then he will sprinkle some of the blood with his finger before the mercy seat seven times.^j

¹⁵“When he slaughters the male goat for the people’s sin offering and brings its blood inside the curtain, he will do the same with its blood as he did with the bull’s blood: He is to sprinkle it against the mercy seat and in front of it. ¹⁶He will make atonement for the most holy place in this way for all their sins because of the Israelites’ impurities and rebellious acts.^k He will do the same for the tent of meeting that remains among them, because it is surrounded by their impurities. ¹⁷No one may be in the tent of meeting from the time he enters to make atonement in the most holy place until he leaves after he has made atonement for himself, his household, and the whole assembly of Israel.^l ¹⁸Then he will go out to the altar that is before the Lord and make atonement for it. He is to take some of the bull’s blood and some of the goat’s blood and put it on the horns on all sides of the altar. ¹⁹He is to sprinkle some of the blood on it with his finger seven times to cleanse and set it apart^m from the Israelites’ impurities.ⁿ

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Cross references

s Lv 4:23–24; 8:18–21; 9:15
t Nm 26:55
a Lv 16:26
b Nm 29:11
c Gn 14:6
d Nm 7:14
e Mk 15:38
f Ex 16:10
g Ex 31:18
h Lv 10:1; Nm 16:46–48; Ps 141:2; Rv 8:3–5
i Heb 9:22
j Lv 4:6; Heb 9:4–5
k Ex 22:9
l 1Tm 2:5; Heb 9:7
m Lv 8:10
n Heb 9:11–14