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Leviticus 15

    ²Say to the Israelites, When any man has a running discharge from his body, because of his discharge he is unclean.

    ³This shall be [the law concerning] his uncleanness in his discharge: whether his body runs with his discharge or has stopped [running], it is uncleanness in him.

    ⁴Every bed on which the one who has the discharge lies is unclean, and everything on which he sits shall be unclean.

    ⁵Whoever touches that person's bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.

    ⁶And whoever sits on anything on which he who has the discharge has sat shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.

    ⁷And he who touches the flesh of him who has the discharge shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.

    ⁸And if he who has the discharge spits on him who is clean, then he shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.

    ⁹And any saddle on which he who has the discharge rides shall be unclean.

    ¹⁰Whoever touches anything that has been under him shall be unclean until evening; and he who carries those things shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until evening.

    ¹¹Whomever he who has the discharge touches without rinsing his hands in water shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until evening.

    ¹²The earthen vessel that he with the discharge touches shall be broken, and every vessel of wood shall be rinsed in water.

    ¹³When he who has a discharge is cleansed of it, he shall count seven days for his purification, then wash his clothes, bathe in running water, and be clean.

    ¹⁴On the eighth day he shall take two turtledoves or two young pigeons and come before the Lord to the door of the Tent of Meeting and give them to the priest;

    ¹⁵And the priest shall offer them, one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering; and [he] shall make atonement for the man before the Lord for his discharge.

    ¹⁶And if any man has a discharge of semen, he shall wash all his body in water, and be unclean until evening.

    ¹⁷And every garment and every skin on which the sperm comes shall be washed with water, and be unclean until evening.

    ¹⁸The woman also with whom a man with emission of semen shall lie, they shall both bathe themselves in water, and be unclean until evening.

    ¹⁹And if a woman has a discharge, her [regular] discharge of blood of her body, she shall be in her impurity or separation for seven days, and whoever touches her shall be unclean until evening.

    ²⁰And everything that she lies on in her separation shall be unclean; everything also that she sits on shall be unclean.

    ²¹And whoever touches her bed shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until evening.

    ²²Whoever touches anything she sat on shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until evening.

    ²³And if her flow has stained her bed or anything on which she sat, when he touches it, he shall be unclean until evening.

    ²⁴And if any man lie with her and her impurity be upon him, he shall be unclean seven days; and every bed on which he lies shall be unclean.

    ²⁵And if a woman has an issue of blood for many days, not during the time of her separation, or if she has a discharge beyond the time of her [regular] impurity, all the days of the issue of her uncleanness she shall be as in the days of her impurity; she shall be unclean.^(A)

    ²⁶Every bed on which she lies all the days of her discharge shall be as the bed of her impurity, and whatever she sits on shall be unclean, as in her impurity.

    ²⁷And whoever touches those things shall be unclean, and shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until evening.

    ²⁸But if she is cleansed of her discharge, then she shall wait seven days, and after that she shall be clean.

    ²⁹And on the eighth day she shall take two turtledoves or two young pigeons and bring them to the priest at the door of the Tent of Meeting;

    ³⁰He shall offer one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering; and he shall make atonement for her before the Lord for her unclean discharge.

    ³¹Thus you shall separate the Israelites from their uncleanness, lest they die in their uncleanness by defiling My tabernacle that is in the midst of them.

    ³²This is the law for him who has a discharge and for him who has emissions of sperm, being made unclean by it;

    ³³And for her who is sick with her impurity, and for any person who has a discharge, whether man or woman, and for him who lies with her who is unclean.

Leviticus 16

    ²The Lord said to Moses, Tell Aaron your brother he ^[a]must not come at all times into the Holy of Holies within the veil before the mercy seat upon the ark, lest he die; for I will appear in the cloud on the mercy seat.^(C)

    ³But Aaron shall come into the holy enclosure in this way: with a young bull for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering.

    ⁴He shall put on the holy linen undergarment, and he shall have the linen breeches upon his body, and be girded with the linen girdle or sash, and with the linen turban or miter shall he be attired; these are the holy garments; he shall bathe his body in water and then put them on.

    ⁵He shall take [at the expense] of the congregation of the Israelites two male goats for a sin offering and one ram for a burnt offering.

    ⁶And Aaron shall present the bull as the sin offering for himself and make atonement for himself and for his house [the other priests].

    ⁷He shall take the two goats and present them before the Lord at the door of the Tent of Meeting.

    ⁸Aaron shall cast lots on the two goats--one lot for the Lord, the other lot for Azazel or removal.

    ⁹And Aaron shall bring the goat on which the Lord's lot fell and offer him as a sin offering.

    ¹⁰But the goat on which the lot fell for Azazel or removal shall be presented alive before the Lord to make atonement over him, that he may be let go into the wilderness for Azazel (for dismissal).

    ¹¹Aaron shall present the bull as the sin offering for his own sins and shall make atonement for himself and for his house [the other priests], and shall kill the bull as the sin offering for himself.

    ¹²He shall take a censer full of burning coals of fire from off the [bronze] altar before the Lord, and his two hands full of sweet incense beaten small, and bring it within the veil [into the Holy of Holies],

    ¹³And put the incense on the fire [in the censer] before the Lord, that the cloud of the incense may cover the mercy seat that is upon [the ark of] the Testimony, lest he die.

    ¹⁴He shall take of the bull's blood and sprinkle it with his finger on the front [the east side] of the mercy seat, and before the mercy seat he shall sprinkle of the blood with his finger seven times.

    ¹⁵Then shall he kill the goat of the sin offering that is for [the sins of] the people and bring its blood within the veil [into the Holy of Holies] and do with that blood as he did with the blood of the bull, and sprinkle it on the mercy seat and before the mercy seat.^(D)

    ¹⁶Thus he shall make atonement for the Holy Place because of the uncleanness of the Israelites and because of their transgressions, even all their sins; and so shall he do for the Tent of Meeting, that remains among them in the midst of their uncleanness.^(E)

    ¹⁷There shall be no man in the Tent of Meeting when the high priest goes in to make atonement in the Holy of Holies [within the veil] until he comes out and has made atonement for his own sins and those of his house [the other priests] and of all the congregation of Israel.

    ¹⁸And he shall go out to the altar [of burnt offering in the court] which is before the Lord and make atonement for it, and shall take some of the blood of the bull and of the goat and put it on the horns of the altar round about.

    ¹⁹And he shall sprinkle some of the blood on it with his fingers seven times and cleanse it and hallow it from the uncleanness of the Israelites.

    ²⁰And when he has finished atoning for the Holy of Holies and the Tent of Meeting and the altar [of burnt offering], he shall present the live goat;

    ²¹And Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat and confess over him all the iniquities of the Israelites and all their transgressions, all their sins; and he shall put them upon the head of the goat [the sin-bearer], and send him away into the wilderness by the hand of a man ^[b]who is timely (ready, fit).

    ²²The goat shall bear upon himself all their iniquities, carrying them to a land cut off (a land of forgetfulness and separation, not inhabited)! And the man leading it shall let the goat go in the wilderness.^(F)

    ²³Aaron shall come into the Tent of Meeting and put off the linen garments which he put on when he went into the Holy of Holies, and leave them there;

    ²⁴And he shall bathe his body with water in a sacred place and put on his garments, and come forth and offer his burnt offering and that of the people, and make atonement for himself and for them.

    ²⁵And the fat of the sin offering he shall burn upon the altar.

    ²⁶The man who led the sin-bearing goat out and let him go for Azazel or removal shall wash his clothes and bathe his body, and afterward he may come into the camp.

    ²⁷The bull and the goat for the sin offering, whose blood was brought in to make atonement in the Holy of Holies, shall be carried forth without the camp; their skins, their flesh, and their dung shall be burned with fire.^(G)

    ²⁸And he who burns them shall wash his clothes and bathe his body in water, and afterward he may come into the camp.

    ²⁹It shall be a statute to you forever that in the seventh month [nearly October] on the tenth day of the month you shall afflict yourselves [by fasting with penitence and humiliation] and do no work at all, either the native-born or the stranger who dwells temporarily among you.

    ³⁰For on this day atonement shall be made for you, to cleanse you; from all your sins you shall be clean before the Lord.^(H)

    ³¹It is a sabbath of [solemn] rest to you, and you shall afflict yourselves [by fasting with penitence and humiliation]; it is a statute forever.

    ³²And the priest who shall be anointed and consecrated to minister in the priest's office in his father's stead shall make atonement, wearing the holy linen garments;

    ³³He shall make atonement for the Holy Sanctuary, for the Tent of Meeting, and for the altar [of burnt offering in the court], and shall make atonement for the priests and for all the people of the assembly.

    ³⁴This shall be an everlasting statute for you, that atonement may be made for the Israelites for all their sins once a year. And Moses did as the Lord commanded him.

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Matthew 27

    ²And they bound Him and led Him away and handed Him over to Pilate the governor.

    ³When Judas, His betrayer, saw that [Jesus] was condemned, [Judas was ^[a]afflicted in mind and troubled for his former folly; and] with remorse [with little more than a selfish dread of the consequences] he brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and the elders,^(A)

    ⁴Saying, I have sinned in betraying innocent blood. They replied, What is that to us? See to that yourself.

    ⁵And casting the pieces of silver [forward] into the [Holy Place of the ^[b]sanctuary of the] temple, he departed; and he went off and hanged himself.

    ⁶But the chief priests, picking up the pieces of silver, said, It is not legal to put these in the [consecrated] treasury, for it is the price of blood.

    ⁷So after consultation they bought with them [the pieces of silver] the potter's field [as a place] in which to bury strangers.

    ⁸Therefore that piece of ground has been called the Field of Blood to the present day.

    ⁹Then were fulfilled the words spoken by Jeremiah the prophet when he said, And they took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of Him on Whom a price had been set by some of the sons of Israel,^(B)

    ¹⁰And they gave them for the potter's field, as the Lord directed me.

    ¹¹Now Jesus stood before the governor [Pilate], and the governor asked Him, Are you the King of the Jews? Jesus said to him, You have stated [the fact].

    ¹²But when the charges were made against Him by the chief priests and elders, He made no answer.^(C)

    ¹³Then Pilate said to Him, Do You not hear how many and how serious are the things they are testifying against You?

    ¹⁴But He made no reply to him, not even to a single accusation, so that the governor marveled greatly.

    ¹⁵Now at the Feast [of the Passover] the governor was in the habit of setting free for the people any one prisoner whom they chose.

    ¹⁶And at that time they had a notorious prisoner whose name was Barabbas.

    ¹⁷So when they had assembled for this purpose, Pilate said to them, Whom do you want me to set free for you, Barabbas, or Jesus Who is called Christ?

    ¹⁸For he knew that it was because of envy that they had handed Him over to him.

    ¹⁹Also, while he was seated on the judgment bench, his wife sent him a message, saying, Have nothing to do with that just and upright Man, for I have had a painful experience today in a dream because of Him.

    ²⁰But the chief priests and the elders prevailed on the people to ask for Barabbas, and put Jesus to death.

    ²¹Again the governor said to them, Which of the two do you wish me to release for you? And they said, Barabbas!

    ²²Pilate said to them, Then what shall I do with Jesus Who is called Christ?

    ²³They all replied, Let Him be crucified! And he said, Why? What has He done that is evil? But they shouted all the louder, Let Him be crucified!

    ²⁴So when Pilate saw that he was getting nowhere, but rather that a riot was about to break out, he took water and washed his hands in the presence of the crowd, saying, I am not guilty of nor responsible for this ^[c]righteous Man's blood; see to it yourselves.^(D)

    ²⁵And all the people answered, Let His blood be on us and on our children!^(E)

    ²⁶So he set free for them Barabbas; and he [had] Jesus whipped, and delivered Him up to be crucified.