34And this shall be an everlasting statute unto you, to make an atonement for the children of Israel for all their sins once a year. And he did as the LORD commanded Moses.
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But into the second went the high priest alone once every year, not without blood, which he offered for himself, and for the errors of the people:
Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others;
And Aaron shall make an atonement upon the horns of it once in a year with the blood of the sin offering of atonements: once in the year shall he make atonement upon it throughout your generations: it is most holy unto the LORD.
For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.
But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 29-34)I. We have here some additional directions in reference to this great solemnity, particularly, 1. The day appointed for this solemnity. It must be observed yearly on the tenth day of the seventh month , Lev. 16:29. The seventh had been reckoned the first month, till God appointed that the month in which the children of Israel came out of Egypt should thenceforward be accounted and called the first…
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