16Then^a Yahweh spoke to Moses after the death of Aaron’s two sons, when they had come near before^b Yahweh and they died. ²And Yahweh said to Moses, “Tell^c your brother Aaron that he should not enter at any time into the sanctuary behind^d the curtain in front of^e the atonement cover that is on the ark, so that he might not die, because I appear in the cloud over the atonement cover.

³“Aaron must enter the sanctuary with this: a young bull^f as a sin offering and a ram as a burnt offering. ⁴He must put on a holy linen tunic,^g and linen undergarments must be on his body, and he must fasten himself^h with a linen sash, and he must wrap a linen turban around his headⁱ—they are holy garments, and he shall wash his body with water, then^j he shall put them on. ⁵And he must take from the Israelites’^k community two he-goats as a sin offering and one ram as a burnt offering.

⁶“And Aaron shall present the sin offering’s bull, which is for himself, and so he shall make atonement for himself and for his family. ⁷And he shall take the two goats, and he shall present them before^l Yahweh at the tent of assembly’s entrance. ⁸Then^m Aaron shall cast lots for the two goats: one lot for Yahweh and one for Azazel. ⁹And Aaron shall present the goat on which the lot for Yahweh fell, and he shall sacrificeⁿ it as a sin offering. ¹⁰But^o he must present alive before^p Yahweh the goat on which the lot for Azazel fell to make atonement for himself, to send it away into the desert to Azazel.

¹¹“And Aaron shall present the sin offering’s bull, which is for himself, and so he shall make atonement for himself and for his family; then^q he shall slaughter the sin offering’s bull, which is for himself. ¹²And he shall take a^r censer full of burning charcoal^s from upon the altar from before^t Yahweh and two handfuls^u of incense of powdered fragrant perfumes, and he shall bring it from behind^v the curtain, ¹³and he shall put the incense on the fire before^w Yahweh so that the cloud of incense might cover the atonement cover, which is on the covenant text,^x so that he might not die. ¹⁴And he shall take some of^y the bull’s blood, and he shall spatter it^z with his finger on the atonement cover’s surface on the eastern side, and before^a the atonement cover he shall spatter some of^b the blood with his finger seven times.

¹⁵“And he shall slaughter the sin offering’s goat, which is for the people, and he shall bring its blood from behind^c the curtain, and he shall do with its blood as that which he did with^d the bull’s blood, and he shall spatter it on the atonement cover and before^e the atonement cover. ¹⁶Thus^f he shall make atonement for the sanctuary from the Israelites’^g impurities and from their transgressions for all their sins; and so he must do for the tent of assembly, which dwells with them in the midst of their impurities.

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Footnotes

aOr “And”
bLiterally “before faces of”
cOr “Speak to”
dLiterally “from the interior/inside to”
eLiterally “to the faces of”
fLiterally “a bull a son of cattle”
gLiterally “a tunic of linen of holiness”
hThe direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
iSupplied from context in the English translation
jOr “and”
kLiterally “sons/children of Israel”
lLiterally “to the faces of”
mOr “And”
nLiterally “do” or “make”
oOr “And”
pLiterally “to the faces of”
qOr “and”
rHebrew “the”
sLiterally “burning charcoal of fire”
tLiterally “to the faces of”
uLiterally “the fullness of the hollow of his hands”
vLiterally “from the interior/inside of”
wLiterally “to the faces of”
xLiterally “testimony”
yLiterally “from”
zThe direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
aLiterally “to the faces of”
bLiterally “from”
cLiterally “from the interior/inside of”
dHebrew “to”
eLiterally “to the faces of”
fOr “And”
gLiterally “sons/children of Israel”