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Through the swirling smoke of Aaron’s incense, Cult and Character steps toward the meaning enacted on “the Day of Purgation,” commonly known as Yom Kippur or “the Day of Atonement.” By treating moral evil both as relational breach and as spiritual pollution, the Israelite system of purification offerings addresses both the standing and the state of YHWH’s people. This system shows the way not...

In the purification offering of a bull on behalf of the high priest (Lev 4:3–12) or the entire community (vv. 13–21), the high priest applies blood in the outer sanctum of the Sacred Tent, and the remainder of the animal is disposed of by incineration. Such an outer-sanctum purification offering is required only when the high priest or the community inadvertently violate a divine command (v. 2). The ritual paradigms for these offerers are the same, with
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