1   And our Lord spake to Moyses, after the death of the two sonnes of Aaron, when they were slaine offering strange fire:

2   and he commanded him, saying: Speake to Aaron thy brother, that he ^note enter not at al times into the Sanctuarie, that is within the veile before the propitiatorie, wherwith the arke is couered, lest he die (for in a cloude wil I appeare ouer the oracle)

3   vnlesse he doe these thinges before: He shal offer a calfe for sinne, and a ramme for an holocaust.

4   He shal be reuested with a linnen tunike, he shal hide his priuities with linnen femoralles: he shal be girded with a linnen girdle, a linnen mitre shal he put vpon his head: for these are holie vestmentes: withal which, when he is washed, he shal be reuested.

5   And he shal receiue of the whole multitude of the children of Israel two bucke goates for sinne, and one ramme for an holocaust.

6   And when he hath offered the calfe, and praied for him self, and for his owne house,

7   he shal make the two bucke goates to stand before the Lord in the dore of the tabernacle of testimonie:

8   and casting lottes vpon both, one for the Lord, & an other for the goate of dismission:

9   that, whose lotte fel to the Lord, he shal offer for sinne:

10   but that, whose lotte was to be the goate of dismission, he shal set aliue before the Lord that he may ^note poure our prayers vpon him, and dismisse him into the wildernesse.

11   After that these thinges be

Ceremonies. duly celebrated, he shal offer the calfe, and praying for him self and for his house, he shal immolate it:

12   and taking the thurible, which he hath filled of the burning coales of the altar, and taking vp with his hand of the compounded persume for incense, he shal goe in beyond the veile into the Holie place:

13   that when the incense is put vpon the fire, the cloude therof and the vapour may couer the oracle, which is ouer the testimonie, and he die not.

14   He shal take also of the bloud of the calfe, and sprinckle with his finger seuen times against the propitiatorie to the east.

15   And when he hath killed the bucke goate for the sinne of the people, he shal carie in the bloud therof within the veile, as hath bene commanded of the bloud of the calfe, that he may sprinckle it against the oracle,

16   and ^note expiate the Sanctuarie from the vncleannesse of the children of Israel, and from their preuarications, and al their sinnes. According to this rite shal he doe to the tabernacle of testimonie, which is fixed among them in the middest of the filth of their habitation.

17   Let no man be in the tabernacle when the high priest goeth into the Sanctuarie, to pray for him self and for his house, & for the whole assemblie of Israel, vntil he come forth.

18   And when he is come forth to the altar that is before the Lord, let him pray for him self and taking the bloud of the calfe, and of the bucke goate, let him poure it vpon the hornes therof round about:

19   and sprinckling with his finger seuen times, let him expiate, and sanctifie it from the vncleannesse of the children of Israel.

20   After he hath clensed the Sanctuarie, and the tabernacle, and the altar, then let him offer the liue goate:

21   and putting both handes vpon his head, let him confesse al the iniquiries of the children of Israel, and al their offences and sinnes: which praying to light on his head, he shal send him forth by a man ready therto, into the desert.

22   And ^note when the goat hath caried al their iniquities into the solitarie ground, and shal be let goe into the desert,

23   Aaron shal returne into the tabernacle of testimonie, and putting of the vestiments, which he had on him before when he entred into the Sanctuarie, and leauing them there,

24   he shal wash his flesh in a holie place, and shal be clothed with his owne garments. And after that he hath gone forth and offered his owne holocaust, and the peoples, he shal pray as wel for him self, as for the people:

25   and the

Ceremonies. fatte, that is offered for sinnes, he shal burne vpon the altar.

26   but he, that hath let goe the goate of dismission, shal wash his clothes, and bodie with water, and so shal enter into the campe.

27   But the calfe & the bucke goate, that were immolated for sinne, and whose bloud was caried into the Sanctuarie, to accomplish the expiation, they shal carie forth without the campe, and shal burne with fire aswel the skinnes as their flesh, and the dung:

28   and whosoeuer burneth them, shal wash his clothes, and his flesh with water, and so shal enter into the campe.

29   And this shal be to you an euerlasting ordinance: The ^note seuenth moneth, the tenth day of the moneth you shal afflict your soules, and no worke shal you doe, whether he be of the same countrie, or a stranger that soiourneth among you.

30   Vpon this day shal be the expiation of you, and clensing from al your sinnes: before the Lord you shal be clensen.

31   for it is a sabath of rest, and you shal afflict your soules by a perpetual religion.

32   And the priest shal expiate, that is annoynted, and whose handes are consecrated to do the function of priesthood for his father: and he shal be reuested with the linnen stole and the holie vestments,

33   and he shal expiate the Sanctuarie and the tabernecle of testimonie and the altar, the priestes also and al the people.

34   And this shal be an ordinance for euer, that you pray for the children of Israel, and for al their sinnes once in a yeare. He did therfore as our Lord had commanded Moyses.

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