Imamat 9:7

9:7 Moses then said to Aaron, “Approach the altar and make your sin offering and your burnt offering, and make atonement on behalf of yourself and on behalf of the people; ¹  and also make the people’s offering and make atonement on behalf of them just as the Lord has commanded.”

Imamat 16:18-19

16:18 “Then ²  he is to go out to the altar which is before the Lord and make atonement for it. He is to take ³  some of the blood of the bull and some of the blood of the goat, and put it all around on the horns of the altar. 16:19 Then he is to sprinkle on it some of the blood with his finger seven times, and cleanse and consecrate it ⁴  from the impurities of the Israelites.

Imamat 16:30

16:30 for on this day atonement is to be made for you to cleanse you from all your sins; you must be clean before the Lord. ⁵ 

Imamat 23:27-28

23:27 “The ⁶  tenth day of this seventh month is the Day of Atonement. ⁷  It is to be a holy assembly for you, and you must humble yourselves ⁸  and present a gift to the Lord. 23:28 You must not do any work on this particular day, ⁹  because it is a day of atonement to make atonement for yourselves ¹⁰  before the Lord your God.

Imamat 25:9

25:9 You must sound loud horn blasts ¹¹  – in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, on the Day of Atonement – you must sound the horn in your entire land.

[9:7]  ¹ tn Instead of “on behalf of the people,” the LXX has “on behalf of your house” as in the Hebrew text of Lev 16:6, 11, 17. Many commentaries follow the LXX here (e.g., J. Milgrom, Leviticus [AB], 1:578; J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 118) as do a few English versions (e.g., NAB), but others argue that, as on the Day of Atonement (Lev 16), the offerings of the priests also effected the people, even though there was still the need to have special offerings made on behalf of the people as reflected in the second half of the verse (e.g., B. A. Levine, Leviticus [JPSTC], 56).

[16:18]  ² tn Heb “And.” The Hebrew conjunction ו (vav, “and”) indicates the sequence of events here.

[16:18]  ³ tn Heb “And he shall take.”

[16:19]  ⁴ tn Heb “and he shall purify it and he shall consecrate it.”

[16:30]  ⁵ tn The phrase “from all your sins” could go with the previous clause as the verse is rendered here (see, e.g., B. A. Levine, Leviticus [JPSTC], 109, and J. Milgrom, Leviticus [AB], 1:1011), or it could go with the following clause (i.e., “you shall be clean from all your sins before the Lord”; see the MT accents as well as J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 221, and recent English versions, e.g., NASB, NIV, NRSV).

[23:27]  ⁶ tn Heb “Surely the tenth day” or perhaps “Precisely the tenth day.” The Hebrew adverbial particle אַךְ (’akh) is left untranslated by most recent English versions; cf. however NASB “On exactly the tenth day.”

[23:27]  ⁷ sn See the description of this day and its regulations in Lev 16 and the notes there.

[23:27]  ⁸ tn Heb “you shall humble your souls.” See the note on Lev 16:29 above.

[23:28]  ⁹ tn Heb “in the bone of this day.”

[23:28]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “on you [plural]”; cf. NASB, NRSV “on your behalf.”

[25:9]  ¹¹ sn On the “loud horn blasts” see the note on Lev 23:24, but unlike the language there, the Hebrew term for “horn” (שׁוֹפָר, shofar) actually appears here in this verse (twice).