because on this day atonement will be made for you to cleanse you, and you will be clean from all your sins before the LORD.
Parallel translations
- WEB for on this day shall atonement be made for you, to cleanse you; from all your sins you shall be clean before Yahweh.
- KJV For on that day shall the priest make an atonement for you, to cleanse you, that ye may be clean from all your sins before the LORD.
- NKJV For 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.
- NASB for it is on this day that atonement shall be made for you to cleanse you; you will be clean from all your sins before the Lord.
- NLT On that day offerings of purification will be made for you, and you will be purified in the Lord’s presence from all your sins.
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Quick answer
On this day atonement cleanses the people from all their sins before Yahweh. It is the great annual cleansing of the nation.
Overview
This verse states the day's purpose plainly: atonement is made to cleanse Israel from all their sins before the LORD. It gathered up the year's accumulated guilt and dealt with it comprehensively. The promise of being clean from all sins points to the perfect and final cleansing accomplished by Christ, who purifies us from all unrighteousness.
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- Jer 33:8And I will cleanse them from all the iniquity they have committed against Me, and will forgive all their sins of rebellion against Me.
- Ps 51:2Wash me clean of my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin.
- Eph 5:26to sanctify her, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word,
- 1 Jn 1:7–9But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin.
- Heb 10:1–2For 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 to worship.
- Ezek 36:25–27I will also sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your impurities and all your idols.
- Titus 2:14He gave Himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for Himself a people for His own possession, zealous for good deeds.
- Ps 51:7Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.
- Ps 51:10Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.
- Heb 9:13–14For if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkled on those who are ceremonially unclean sanctify them so that their bodies are clean,
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Every sacrifice, every priest, and every day of atonement points beyond itself to the one perfect offering and the great High Priest who, by his own blood, makes the unclean holy once for all.
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