³⁴ This is a permanent law for you, to purify the people of Israel from their sins, making them right with the Lord once each year.”

Moses followed all these instructions exactly as the Lord had commanded him.

⁷ But only the high priest ever entered the Most Holy Place, and only once a year. And he always offered blood for his own sins and for the sins the people had committed in ignorance.

²⁵ And he did not enter heaven to offer himself again and again, like the high priest here on earth who enters the Most Holy Place year after year with the blood of an animal.

¹⁰ “Once a year Aaron must purify^[a] the altar by smearing its horns with blood from the offering made to purify the people from their sin. This will be a regular, annual event from generation to generation, for this is the Lord’s most holy altar.”

¹⁴ For by that one offering he forever made perfect those who are being made holy.

³ But instead, those sacrifices actually reminded them of their sins year after year.

Offerings for the Day of Atonement

⁷ “Ten days later, on the tenth day of the same month,^[a] you must call another holy assembly. On that day, the Day of Atonement, the people must go without food and must do no ordinary work.

³¹ You must not do any work at all! This is a permanent law for you, and it must be observed from generation to generation wherever you live.