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The Day of Atonement

26 Then[a] Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, 27 “Surely the Day of Atonement is on the tenth day of the seventh month; it shall be a holy assembly for you, and you shall deny yourselves, and you shall present an offering made by fire to Yahweh. 28 And you must not do any regular work[b] on this very same day,[c] because it is the Day of Atonement to make atonement for you before[d] Yahweh your God. 29 If there is any person who does not deny himself on this very same day,[e] then[f] he shall be cut off from his people. 30 As for[g] any person who does any work on this very same day,[h] I will exterminate that person from the midst of his people. 31 You must not do any work; it is a lasting statute[i] throughout your generations in all your dwellings. 32 It is a Sabbath of complete rest[j] for you, and you shall deny yourselves on the ninth day of the month in the evening—from evening to evening you must observe your extraordinary[k] Sabbath.”

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Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 23:26 Or “And”
  2. Leviticus 23:28 Literally “all work of labor”
  3. Leviticus 23:28 Literally “the exactly of this day”
  4. Leviticus 23:28 Literally “to the faces of”
  5. Leviticus 23:29 Literally “the exactly of this day”
  6. Leviticus 23:29 Or “and”
  7. Leviticus 23:30 Or “And”
  8. Leviticus 23:30 Literally “the exactly of this day”
  9. Leviticus 23:31 Literally “a statute of eternity” or “a statute of long duration”
  10. Leviticus 23:32 Literally “a Sabbath of ‘Sabbathation.’” “Sabbathation” is not a real word, but it is devised as an attempt to convey the sounds of the related nouns in the Hebrew phrase
  11. Leviticus 23:32 Supplied from the immediate context within this verse