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The Day of Atonement

¹Now the Lord spoke to Moses after ⚓the death of the two sons of Aaron, when they offered profane fire before the Lord, and died; ²and the Lord said to Moses: “Tell Aaron your brother ⚓not to come at just any time into the Holy Place inside the veil, before the mercy seat which is on the ark, lest he die; for ⚓I will appear in the cloud above the mercy seat.
³“Thus Aaron shall ⚓come into the Holy Place: ⚓with the blood of a young bull as a sin offering, and of a ram as a burnt offering. ⁴He shall put the ⚓holy linen tunic and the linen trousers on his body; ⚓he shall be girded with a linen sash, and with the linen turban he shall be attired. These are holy garments. Therefore he shall wash his body in water, and put them on. ⁵And he shall take from ⚓the congregation of the children of Israel two kids of the goats as a sin offering, and one ram as a burnt offering.
⁶“Aaron shall offer the bull as a sin offering, which is for himself, and ⚓make atonement for himself and for his house. ⁷He shall take the two goats and present them before the Lord at the door of the tabernacle of meeting. ⁸Then Aaron shall cast lots for the two goats: one lot for the Lord and the other lot for the scapegoat. ⁹And Aaron shall bring the goat on which the Lord’s lot fell, and offer it as a sin offering. ¹⁰But the goat on which the lot fell to be the scapegoat shall be presented alive before the Lord, to make ⚓atonement upon it, and to let it go as the scapegoat into the wilderness.
¹¹“And Aaron shall bring the bull of the sin offering, which is for himself, and make atonement for ⚓himself and for his house, and shall kill the bull as the sin offering which is for himself. ¹²Then he shall take ⚓a censer full of burning coals of fire from the altar before the Lord, with his hands full of ⚓sweet incense beaten fine, and bring it inside the veil. ¹³⚓And he shall put the incense on the fire before the Lord, that the cloud of incense may cover the ⚓mercy seat that is on the Testimony, lest he ⚓die. ¹⁴⚓He shall take some of the blood of the bull and ⚓sprinkle it with his finger on the mercy seat on the east side; and before the mercy seat he shall sprinkle some of the blood with his finger seven times.
¹⁵⚓“Then he shall kill the goat of the sin offering, which is for the people, bring its blood ⚓inside the veil, do with that blood as he did with the blood of the bull, and sprinkle it on the mercy seat and before the mercy seat. ¹⁶So he shall ⚓make atonement for the Holy Place, because of the uncleanness of the children of Israel, and because of their transgressions, for all their sins; and so he shall do for the tabernacle of meeting which remains among them in the midst of their uncleanness. ¹⁷There shall be ⚓no man in the tabernacle of meeting when he goes in to make atonement in the Holy Place, until he comes out, that he may make atonement for himself, for his household, and for all the assembly of Israel. ¹⁸And he shall go out to the altar that is before the Lord, and make atonement for ⚓it, and shall take some of the blood of the bull and some of the blood of the goat, and put it on the horns of the altar all around. ¹⁹Then he shall sprinkle some of the blood on it with his finger seven times, cleanse it, and ⚓consecrate it from the uncleanness of the children of Israel.
²⁰“And when he has made an end of atoning for the Holy Place, the tabernacle of meeting, and the altar, he shall bring the live goat. ²¹Aaron shall lay both his hands on the head of the live goat, ⚓confess over it all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions, concerning all their sins, ⚓putting them on the head of the goat, and shall send it away into the wilderness by the hand of a suitable man. ²²The goat shall ⚓bear on itself all their iniquities to an uninhabited land; and he shall ⚓release the goat in the wilderness.
²³“Then Aaron shall come into the tabernacle of meeting, ⚓shall take off the linen garments which he put on when he went into the Holy Place, and shall leave them there. ²⁴And he shall wash his body with water in a holy place, put on his garments, come out and offer his burnt offering and the burnt offering of the people, and make atonement for himself and for the people. ²⁵⚓The fat of the sin offering he shall burn on the altar. ²⁶And he who released the goat as the scapegoat shall wash his clothes ⚓and bathe his body in water, and afterward he may come into the camp. ²⁷⚓The bull for the sin offering and the goat for the sin offering, whose blood was brought in to make atonement in the Holy Place, shall be carried outside the camp. And they shall burn in the fire their skins, their flesh, and their offal. ²⁸Then he who burns them shall wash his clothes and bathe his body in water, and afterward he may come into the camp.
²⁹“This shall be a statute forever for you: ⚓In the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you shall afflict your souls, and do no work at all, whether a native of your own country or a stranger who dwells among you. ³⁰For on that day the priest shall make atonement for you, to ⚓cleanse you, that you may be clean from all your sins before the Lord. ³¹⚓It is a sabbath of solemn rest for you, and you shall afflict your souls. It is a statute forever. ³²⚓And the priest, who is anointed and ⚓consecrated to minister as priest in his father’s place, shall make atonement, and put on the linen clothes, the holy garments; ³³then he shall make atonement for the Holy Sanctuary, and he shall make atonement for the tabernacle of meeting and for the altar, and he shall make atonement for the priests and for all the people of the assembly. ³⁴⚓This shall be an everlasting statute for you, to make atonement for the children of Israel, for all their sins, ⚓once a year.” And he did as the Lord commanded Moses.

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Hnub Theej Txhoj

¹Tus TSWV hais rau Mauxes tom qab uas Aloos ob tug tub raug tua tuag thaum nkawd coj cov ncaig taws tsis dawbhuv mus fij rau tus TSWV. ²Tus TSWV hais rau Mauxes hais tias, “Koj cia li qhia rau koj tus tijlaug Aloos hais tias, tsuas yog thaum txog lub sijhawm uas teem tseg, nws thiaj mus tau rau tom qab daim ntaub uas quas Chav Dawbhuv kawg nkaus xwb, rau qhov kuv tshwm saum tauv huab los nyob rau saum lub Phijxab uas ntim Vajtswv tej lus cog tseg. Yog nws tsis mloog lus, nws yuav tuag. ³Nws mus tau rau hauv Chav Dawbhuv kawg nkaus, thaum nws coj tus ntsuag nyuj mus tua fij daws txim thiab tus laug yaj mus tua hlawv fij nkaus xwb.”
⁴Ua ntej nws yuav mus rau hauv Chav uas Dawbhuv kawg nkaus, nws yuav tsum da dej thiab hnav cev ris tsho povthawj uas yog: lub tsho ntaubmag ntev, lub ris luv, sia txojsiv ntaubmag thiab ntoo txoj phuam.
⁵Cov Yixalayees yuav tsum muab ob tug laug tshis rau Aloos coj mus tua fij daws txim thiab ib tug laug yaj coj mus tua hlawv fij. ⁶Nws muab ib tug heev nyuj coj mus fij ua khoom theej txhoj daws nws thiab nws tsevneeg lub txim. ⁷Ces nws yuav tsum tau coj ob tug laug tshis ntawd mus rau ntawm tus TSWV lub Tsevntaub sib ntsib lub qhovrooj. ⁸Aloos muab ob tug tshis ntawd rho ntawv, ib tug rau tus TSWV, thiab ib tug rau Axaxees. ⁹Aloos yuav tsum muab tus tshis uas rho ntawv tau rau tus TSWV tua theej txhoj thiab muab fij daws txim. ¹⁰Thiab muab tus tshis uas rho ntawv tau rau Axaxees fij ciaj rau tus TSWV thiab muab tso mus rau Axaxees tom tiaj suabpuam, kom ris sawvdaws tej kev txhaum mus povtseg.
¹¹Thaum Aloos muab tus heev nyuj los tua fij daws nws thiab nws tsevneeg lub txim, ¹²nws yuav tsum muab lub yias rau ncaig taws mus yawm ib co ncaig uas tseem cig ntsaj thuav ntawm lub thaj, thiab yawm ob phoovtes hmoov tshuaj tsw qab coj mus rau hauv Chav Dawbhuv kawg nkaus. ¹³Nws muab cov hmoov tshuaj tsw qab tso rau saum cov ncaig taws tabmeeg tus TSWV, kom cov pa hmoov tshuaj tsw qab ncho tuaj roos lub hau Phijxab uas ntim Vajtswv tej lus cog tseg kom Aloos tsis txhob pom lub hau phijxab, nws thiaj tsis tuag. ¹⁴Aloos yuav tsum nqa cov ntshav nyuj mus thiab muab nws tus ntivtes tub cov ntshav ntawd, nchos rau lub hau Phijxab sab hauv ntej thiab muab mentsis nchos rau lub Phijxab sab ntawm hauv ntej xya zaus.
¹⁵Ces tom qab ntawd, Aloos mam li muab tus laug tshis uas fij daws cov pejxeem lub txim tua, thiab nqa cov ntshav mus rau hauv Chav Dawbhuv kawg nkaus, muab cov ntshav ntawd nchos rau lub hau Phijxab thiab lub Phijxab sab hauv ntej, ib yam li nws nchos cov ntshav nyuj. ¹⁶Qhov uas Aloos ua li no, yog nws ua kevcai ntxuav Chav Dawbhuv kawg nkaus kom huv, vim cov Yixalayees tej kev phem kev qias thiab lawv tej kev txhaum. Aloos yuav tsum ua kevcai ntxuav li no rau tus TSWV lub Tsevntaub sib ntsib, rau qhov lub tsevntaub nyob hauv lub plawv yeej uas yog qhov chaw tsis huv. ¹⁷Thaum Aloos mus rau hauv Chav Dawbhuv kawg nkaus, mus ua kevcai ntxuav nws, nws tsevneeg thiab cov Yixalayees, mas tsis pub ib tug neeg nyob hauv tus TSWV lub Tsevntaub sib ntsib mus txog thaum uas nws tawm rov los; ¹⁸Aloos yuav tsum mus hlawv khoom fij rau ntawm lub thaj thiab ua kevcai ntxuav lub thaj. Nws yuav tsum muab mentsis ntshav nyuj thiab ntshav tshis pleev rau plaub tug kub saum plaub ceg kaum thaj. ¹⁹Thiab nws yuav tsum muab nws tus ntivtes tub cov ntshav ntawd nchos rau lub thaj xya zaus. Qhov uas nws ua li no yog nws ua kevcai ntxuav lub thaj, vim cov Yixalayees tej kev txhaum thiab ua kom lub thaj dawbhuv.

Tus Tshis uas Muab Tso Khiav Mus

²⁰Thaum Aloos ua kevcai ntxuav Chav uas Dawbhuv kawg nkaus hauv tus TSWV lub Tsevntaub sib ntsib thiab lub thaj tas lawm, nws mam li muab tus tshis uas rho tau rau Axaxees fij ciaj rau tus TSWV. ²¹Aloos tsa nws ob txhais tes rau saum tus tshis ntawd lub taubhau thiab lees tagnrho cov Yixalayees tej kev phem kev qias, tej txim thiab tej kev ntxeev siab, muab tej ntawd foom huv tibsi rau saum tus tshis lub taubhau. Ces kom tus neeg uas twb npaj tau lawm cab tus tshis ntawd mus tso rau tom tiaj suabpuam. ²²Ces tus tshis ntawd yuav ris lawv tej txim saum nws lub taubhau nrog nws mus povtseg, rau thaj chaw uas tsis muaj neeg nyob hlo li.
²³Ces Aloos yuav tsum rov mus rau hauv tus TSWV lub Tsevntaub sib ntsib, muab cev ris tsho povthawj uas nws hnav ua ntej nws mus rau hauv Chav Dawbhuv kawg nkaus hle thiab muab tso rau hauv. ²⁴Nws yuav tsum mus da dej hauv ib chav dawbhuv thiab hnav nws cev ris tsho. Tom qab ntawd, nws mam li tawm los thiab muab khoom mus hlawv fij daws nws thiab cov Yixalayees lub txim. ²⁵Nws yuav tsum muab cov roj tsiaj mus hlawv rau saum lub thaj fij daws txim. ²⁶Tus neeg uas cab tus tshis mus rau Axaxees tom tiaj suabpuam yuav tsum hle nws cev ris tsho ntxhua thiab da dej ua ntej uas nws yuav rov los rau hauv lub yeej. ²⁷Tus heev nyuj thiab tus laug yaj uas tua fij daws txim uas twb muab cov ntshav nqa mus ua kevcai daws txim rau hauv Chav Dawbhuv kawg nkaus lawm, yuav tsum coj mus rau sab nraum ntug yeej, ob daim tawv, cov nqaij, lub plab thiab cov hnyuv yuav tsum muab hlawv kom tas huv tibsi. ²⁸Tus uas mus hlawv tej ntawd, nws yuav tsum hle nws cev ris tsho ntxhua thiab da dej ua ntej uas nws yuav rov los rau hauv lub yeej.

Ua Raws Li Hnub ua Kevcai Theej Txhoj

²⁹Yuav tsum coj raws li tej kevcai no mus ibtxhis. Lub xya hli ntuj hnub xiab kaug, cov Yixalayees thiab cov neeg txawv tebchaws uas nrog nej nyob ua ke, yuav tsum ua kevcai yoo mov thiab tsis txhob ua ib yam haujlwm dabtsi hlo li. ³⁰Hnub ntawd yuav tsum ua kevcai daws tagnrho nej tej kev txhaum, nej thiaj li ua tau neeg huv. ³¹Hnub ntawd yog hnub dawbhuv, hnub ntawd nej yuav tsum yoo mov ib hnub thiab tsis txhob ua ib yam haujlwm li. Tej no yog tej kevcai uas nej yuav tsum coj thiab ua mus ibtxhis li. ³²Tus Povthawj Hlob uas tsa los hloov nws txiv chaw, yog tus uas ua kevcai ntxuav rau sawvdaws kom huv. Nws yuav tsum hnav cev ris tsho povthawj ³³thiab ua kevcai ntxuav Chav uas Dawbhuv kawg nkaus, tus TSWV lub Tsevntaub sib ntsib, lub thaj thiab cov Yixalayees sawvdaws. ³⁴Tej kevcai no yog tej uas nej yuav tsum coj thiab ua raws li no mus ibtxhis. Yuav tsum ua txoj kevcai no rau cov Yixalayees ib xyoo ib zaug ntxuav lawv tej kev txhaum povtseg.
Yog li ntawd, Mauxes thiaj ua raws li tej lus uas tus TSWV tau samhwm rau nws lawm.