¹⁵ Also one sheep is to be taken from every flock of two hundred from the well-watered pastures of Israel. These will be used for the grain offerings, burnt offerings^(A) and fellowship offerings to make atonement^(B) for the people, declares the Sovereign Lord.

⁴ You are to lay your hand on the head^(A) of the burnt offering,^(B) and it will be accepted^(C) on your behalf to make atonement^(D) for you.

³⁰ But any sin offering whose blood is brought into the tent of meeting to make atonement^(A) in the Holy Place^(B) must not be eaten; it must be burned up.^(C)

²² In fact, the law requires that nearly everything be cleansed with blood,^(A) and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.^(B)

²³ It was necessary, then, for the copies^(C) of the heavenly things to be purified with these sacrifices, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.

¹⁷ For this reason he had to be made like them,^[a](A) fully human in every way, in order that he might become a merciful^(B) and faithful high priest^(C) in service to God,^(D) and that he might make atonement for the sins of the people.^(E)

²¹ Once you were alienated from God and were enemies^(A) in your minds^(B) because of^[a] your evil behavior.

¹⁶ and in one body to reconcile both of them to God through the cross,^(A) by which he put to death their hostility.

¹⁹ that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them.^(A) And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. ²⁰ We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors,^(B) as though God were making his appeal through us.^(C) We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God.^{(D) 21} God made him who had no sin^(E) to be sin^[a] for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.^(F)

¹⁰ For if, while we were God’s enemies,^(A) we were reconciled^(B) to him through the death of his Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through his life!^(C)