You shall do no kind of work in that same day; for it is a day of atonement, to make atonement for you before Yahweh your God.
Parallel translations
- KJV And ye shall do no work in that same day: for it is a day of atonement, to make an atonement for you before the LORD your God.
- BSB On this day you are not to do any work, for it is the Day of Atonement, when atonement is made for you before the LORD your God.
- NKJV And you shall do no work on that same day, for it is the Day of Atonement, to make atonement for you before the Lord your God.
- NASB You shall not do any work on this very day, for it is a Day of Atonement, to make atonement on your behalf before the Lord your God.
- NLT Do no work during that entire day because it is the Day of Atonement, when offerings of purification are made for you, making you right with the Lord your God.
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Quick answer
No work at all is to be done on the Day of Atonement, for it is the day atonement is made before Yahweh.
Overview
The total prohibition of work set this day apart as wholly devoted to atonement. By resting completely, Israel acknowledged that reconciliation with God was His work, not theirs. This rest from labor on the day of atonement beautifully foreshadows the gospel, in which we rest in Christ's finished work for our forgiveness (Hebrews 4:10).
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Cross-references · 12
- Zech 3:9For, behold, the stone that I have set before Joshua; on one stone are seven eyes: behold, I will engrave its engraving,’ says Yahweh of Armies, ‘and I will remove the iniquity of that land in one day.
- Lev 16:34“This shall be an everlasting statute for you, to make atonement for the children of Israel once in the year because of all their sins.” It was done as Yahweh commanded Moses.
- Dan 9:24Seventy weeks are decreed on your people and on your holy city, to finish disobedience, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy.
- Heb 9:26or else he must have suffered often since the foundation of the world. But now once at the end of the ages, he has been revealed to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
- Heb 9:12nor yet through the blood of goats and calves, but through his own blood, entered in once for all into the Holy Place, having obtained eternal redemption.
- Heb 10:10by which will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
- Heb 10:14For by one offering he has perfected forever those who are being sanctified.
- Rom 5:10–11For if, while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we will be saved by his life.
- 1 Jn 2:2And he is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world.
- 1 Jn 4:10In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.
- 1 Jn 5:6This is he who came by water and blood, Jesus Christ; not with the water only, but with the water and the blood. It is the Spirit who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth.
- Isa 53:10Yet it pleased Yahweh to bruise him. He has caused him to suffer. When you make his soul an offering for sin, he will see his offspring. He will prolong his days, and Yahweh’s pleasure will prosper in his hand.
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