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.
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.
- BSB 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.
- 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 their iniquity, whereby they have sinned against me; and I will pardon all their iniquities, whereby they have sinned, and whereby they have transgressed against me.
- Ps 51:2Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.
- Eph 5:26That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,
- 1 Jn 1:7–9But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.
- Heb 10:1–2For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.
- Ezek 36:25–27Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.
- Titus 2:14Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.
- Ps 51:7Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall 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 bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh:
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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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