Leviticus 16:34 BSB

Leviticus 16:34

This is to be a permanent statute for you, to make atonement once a year for the Israelites because of all their sins.” And all this was done as the LORD had commanded Moses.

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ASV

And this shall be an everlasting statute unto you, to make atonement for the children of Israel because of all their sins once in the year. And he did as Jehovah commanded Moses.

KJV

And this shall be an everlasting statute unto you, to make an 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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Commentary

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Charles Spurgeon

1834–1892

The New Park Street Pulpit, Sermon No. 95: “The Day of Atonement” (lightly modernized text, CCEL edition) (1856)

The Jews had many striking ceremonies which marvellously set forth the death of Jesus Christ as the great expiation of our guilt and the salvation of our souls. One of the chief of these was the day of atonement, which I believe was pre-eminently intended to typify that great day of vengeance of our God, which was also the great day of acceptance of our souls, when Jesus Christ “died, the just for the unjust, to bring us to God.”

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Hebraic traditional view

The day Israel still fasts

This chapter founds the Day of Atonement, in Hebrew Yom Kippur, the most solemn day of the Jewish year: the one day the high priest entered the innermost room of the sanctuary with blood for the nation's sins. With no Temple standing since AD 70, the day is kept now as a full fast: roughly 25 hours with no food or drink, most of it spent in synagogue prayer, many wearing white.

The Mishnah (the first code of Jewish oral law, about AD 200) defines the day's five abstentions: eating and drinking, washing, anointing, leather shoes, and marital relations (Yoma 8:1). It also carries a saying worth any reader's time: the day atones for sins between a person and God, “but for sins between a person and his fellow, the Day of Atonement does not atone until he has appeased his fellow” (Yoma 8:9). Reconciliation with people is homework done before the day.

Sources: Mishnah Yoma 8:1 (the five abstentions) · Mishnah Yoma 8:9 (appease your fellow first) · The Day of Atonement (this site's study)

Original language & word study

19 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וְהָֽיְתָה־	ve.ha.ye.tah-	and it will become	H1961 →
זֹּ֨את	zot	this	H2063 →
לָכֶ֜ם	la.Khem	for <the> you
לְחֻקַּ֣ת	le.chu.Kat	<into> a statute of	H2708 →
עוֹלָ֗ם	o.Lam	perpetuity	H5769 →
לְכַפֵּ֞ר	le.kha.Per	to make atonement	H3722 →
עַל־	'al-	on	H5921 →
בְּנֵ֤י	be.Nei	[the] people of	H1121 →
יִשְׂרָאֵל֙	Yis.ra.'El	Israel	H3478 →
מִכָּל־	mi.kol	from all	H3605 →
חַטֹּאתָ֔ם	cha.to.Tam	sins their	H2403 →
אַחַ֖ת	'a.Chat	one [time]	H259 →
בַּשָּׁנָ֑ה	ba.sha.Nah	in the year	H8141 →
וַיַּ֕עַשׂ	vai.Ya.'as	and he did	H6213 →
כַּאֲשֶׁ֛ר	ka.'a.Sher	just as	H834 →
צִוָּ֥ה	tzi.Vah	he had commanded	H6680 →
יְהוָ֖ה	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3068 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
מֹשֶֽׁה׃ פ	mo.Sheh	Moses	H4872 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Hebrews 10:14
because by a single offering He has made perfect for all time those who are being sanctified.
leads to
- Hebrews 9:14
  how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself unblemished to God, purify our consciences from works of death, so that we may serve the living God!
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Hebrews 7:25
  Therefore He is able to save completely those who draw near to God through Him, since He always lives to intercede for them.
- Hebrews 10:1
  For the law is only a shadow of the good things to come, not the realities themselves. It can never, by the same sacrifices offered year after year, make perfect those who draw near…
- Hebrews 2:11
  For both the One who sanctifies and those who are sanctified are of the same family. So Jesus is not ashamed to call them brothers.
Through
Hebrews 10:3
Instead, those sacrifices are an annual reminder of sins,
leads to
- Hebrews 9:7
  But only the high priest entered the second room, and then only once a year, and never without blood, which he offered for himself and for the sins the people had committed in ignorance.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Exodus 30:10
  Once a year Aaron shall make atonement on the horns of the altar. Throughout your generations he shall make atonement on it annually with the blood of the sin offering of atonement. The altar…
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Through
Exodus 30:10
Once a year Aaron shall make atonement on the horns of the altar. Throughout your generations he shall make atonement on it annually with the blood of the sin offering of atonement. The altar…
leads to
- Leviticus 16:18
  Then he shall 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…
Through
Hebrews 9:25
Nor did He enter heaven to offer Himself again and again, as the high priest enters the Most Holy Place every year with blood that is not his own.
leads to
- Hebrews 9:12
  He did not enter by the blood of goats and calves, but He entered the Most Holy Place once for all by His own blood, thus securing eternal redemption.

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