and one male goat for a sin offering, to make atonement for you.
Parallel translations
- KJV And one goat for a sin offering, to make an atonement for you.
- BSB Include one male goat as a sin offering to make atonement for you.
- NKJV also one goat as a sin offering, to make atonement for you.
- NASB and one male goat as a sin offering to make atonement for you.
- NLT You must also offer a male goat as a sin offering to purify yourselves and make yourselves right with the Lord.
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Quick answer
A goat for a sin offering was included 'to make atonement for you,' keeping forgiveness at the heart of the joyful feast.
Overview
Even amid festal celebration, Israel could not approach God without a sin offering to cover their guilt. The phrase 'to make atonement for you' shows that fellowship with God always rests on dealt-with sin. These atoning goats foreshadow Christ, who by one sacrifice made full atonement for His people.
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- Rom 8:3For what the law couldn’t do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh;
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