You must also sacrifice one male goat for a sin offering. This is in addition to the sin offering of atonement and the regular daily burnt offering with its grain offering, and their accompanying liquid offerings.
Parallel translations
- WEB one male goat for a sin offering; besides the sin offering of atonement, and the continual burnt offering, and its meal offering, and their drink offerings.
- KJV One kid of the goats for a sin offering; beside the sin offering of atonement, and the continual burnt offering, and the meat offering of it, and their drink offerings.
- BSB Include one male goat for a sin offering, in addition to the sin offering of atonement and the regular burnt offering with its grain offering and drink offerings.
- NKJV also one kid of the goats as a sin offering, besides the sin offering for atonement, the regular burnt offering with its grain offering, and their drink offerings.
- NASB one male goat as a sin offering, besides the sin offering of atonement and the continual burnt offering, and its grain offering, and their drink offerings.
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A goat for a sin offering was added besides the special atonement sin offering, the continual offering, and their grain and drink offerings.
Overview
This day uniquely involved both the additional sin offering of the festival calendar and 'the sin offering of atonement,' the special rite of cleansing in Leviticus 16. The layering shows how thoroughly Israel's sin had to be addressed before a holy God. All these repeated offerings point to Christ, whose single sacrifice on the true Day of Atonement accomplished what they could only prefigure (Hebrews 9:11-14).
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Cross-references · 9
- Lev 16:3“Aaron shall come into the sanctuary with a young bull for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering.
- Lev 16:5He shall take from the congregation of the children of Israel two male goats for a sin offering, and one ram for a burnt offering.
- Num 28:3–8You shall tell them, ‘This is the offering made by fire which you shall offer to Yahweh: male lambs a year old without defect, two day by day, for a continual burnt offering.
- 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.
- Dan 9:24–26Seventy 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.
- Num 29:6besides the burnt offering of the new moon, and its meal offering, and the continual burnt offering and its meal offering, and their drink offerings, according to their ordinance, for a pleasant aroma, an offering made by fire to Yahweh.
- Heb 9:25–28nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest enters into the holy place year by year with blood not his own,
- Lev 16:9Aaron shall present the goat on which the lot fell for Yahweh, and offer him for a sin offering.
- Heb 7:27who doesn’t need, like those high priests, to offer up sacrifices daily, first for his own sins, and then for the sins of the people. For he did this once for all, when he offered up himself.
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