The Day of Cleansing

²⁶ The Lord said to Moses, ²⁷ “The Day of ·Cleansing [Atonement] will be on the tenth day of the seventh month. There will be a holy ·meeting [convocation], and you will deny yourselves and bring an offering made by fire to the Lord. ²⁸ Do not do any work on that day, because it is the Day of ·Cleansing [Atonement]. On that day the priests will go before the Lord and ·perform the acts to make you clean from sin so you will belong to the Lord [make atonement for you].

²⁹ “Anyone who ·refuses to give up food [or does not deny himself] on this day must be cut off from the people. ³⁰ If anyone works on this day, I will destroy that person from among the people. ³¹ You must not do any work at all; this ·law [statute; ordinance; requirement] will continue ·for people from now on [^Lthroughout your generations] wherever you live. ³² It will be a special day of rest for you, and you must ·deny yourselves [or fast]. You will start this special day of rest on the evening after the ninth day of the month, and it will continue from that evening until the next evening [ch. 16; Num. 9:7–11].”