English Standard Version

Leviticus 16:22-31 English Standard Version (ESV)

22. The goat shall bear all their iniquities on itself to a remote area, and he shall let the goat go free in the wilderness.

23. “Then Aaron shall come into the tent of meeting and shall take off the linen garments that he put on when he went into the Holy Place and shall leave them there.

24. And he shall bathe his body in water in a holy place and put on his garments and come out and offer his burnt offering and the burnt offering of the people and make atonement for himself and for the people.

25. And the fat of the sin offering he shall burn on the altar.

26. And he who lets the goat go to Azazel shall wash his clothes and bathe his body in water, and afterward he may come into the camp.

27. And 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. Their skin and their flesh and their dung shall be burned up with fire.

28. And he who burns them shall wash his clothes and bathe his body in water, and afterward he may come into the camp.

29. “And it shall be a statute to you forever that in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you shall afflict yourselves and shall do no work, either the native or the stranger who sojourns among you.

30. For on this day shall atonement be made for you to cleanse you. You shall be clean before the Lord from all your sins.

31. It is a Sabbath of solemn rest to you, and you shall afflict yourselves; it is a statute forever.