Leviticus 16:6 BSB — MannaFest

Leviticus 16:6

Aaron is to present the bull for his sin offering and make atonement for himself and his household.

BSB

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ASV

And Aaron shall present the bullock of the sin-offering, which is for himself, and make atonement for himself, and for his house.

KJV

And Aaron shall offer his bullock of the sin offering, which is for himself, and make an atonement for himself, and for his house.

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Commentary

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Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Shall offer - Rather, shall present, as in Lev 16:7, Lev 16:10, etc. The word expresses the formal act of placing the victims in front of the entrance of the tabernacle. For himself, and for his house - i. e. for himself as the high priest and all the common priests. Compare Lev 9:7-14 note.

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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

11 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וְהִקְרִ֧יב	ve.hik.Riv	and he will present	H7126 →
אַהֲרֹ֛ן	'a.ha.Ron	Aaron	H175 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
פַּ֥ר	par	[the] bull of	H6499 →
הַחַטָּ֖את	ha.cha.Tat	the sin offering	H2403 →
אֲשֶׁר־	'a.Sher-	which	H834 →
ל֑וֹ	lo	[is] for <the> himself
וְכִפֶּ֥ר	ve.khi.Per	and he will make atonement	H3722 →
בַּעֲד֖וֹ	ba.'a.Do	for himself	H1157 →
וּבְעַ֥ד	u.ve.'Ad	and for	H1157 →
בֵּיתֽוֹ׃	bei.To	household his	H1004 →

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

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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
Job 1:5
And when the days of feasting were over, Job would send for his children to purify them, rising early in the morning to offer burnt offerings for all of them. For Job thought, “Perhaps…
leads to
- Job 42:8
  So now, take seven bulls and seven rams, go to My servant Job, and sacrifice a burnt offering for yourselves. Then My servant Job will pray for you, for I will accept his prayer…
- Genesis 8:20
  Then Noah built an altar to the LORD. And taking from every kind of clean animal and clean bird, he offered burnt offerings on the altar.
- 1 Samuel 16:5
  “In peace,” he replied. “I have come to sacrifice to the LORD. Consecrate yourselves and come with me to the sacrifice.” Then he consecrated Jesse and his sons and invited them to the sacrifice.
- Job 8:4
  When your children sinned against Him, He gave them over to their rebellion.
- Ephesians 6:18
  Pray in the Spirit at all times, with every kind of prayer and petition. To this end, stay alert with all perseverance in your prayers for all the saints.
Through
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.
leads to
- 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.
- Hebrews 7:27
  Unlike the other high priests, He does not need to offer daily sacrifices, first for His own sins and then for the sins of the people; He sacrificed for sin once for all when…
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Through
Leviticus 9:7
Then Moses said to Aaron, “Approach the altar and sacrifice your sin offering and your burnt offering to make atonement for yourself and for the people. And sacrifice the people’s offering to make atonement…
leads to
- Hebrews 5:3
  That is why he is obligated to offer sacrifices for his own sins, as well as for the sins of the people.

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