for on this day shall atonement be made for you, to cleanse you. You shall be clean from all your sins before Yahweh. It is a Sabbath of solemn rest to you, and you shall afflict your souls. It is a statute forever. The priest, who is anointed and who is consecrated to be priest in his father’s place, shall make the atonement, and shall put on the linen garments, even the holy garments. Then he shall make atonement for the Holy Sanctuary; and he shall make atonement for the Tent of Meeting and for the altar; and he shall make atonement for the priests and for all the people of the assembly.
“This shall be an everlasting statute for you, to make atonement for the children of Israel once in the year because of all their sins.” It was done as Yahweh commanded Moses.
Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain On vv31–32 Or a rest which ye shall keep most diligently.
Or a rest which ye shall keep most diligently.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain On vv30–34 Lev 16:30 For on that day shall [the priest]…
Lev 16:30 For on that day shall [the priest] make an atonement for you, to cleanse you, [that] ye may be clean from all your sins before the LORD.
Ver. 30. That ye may be clean from all your sins.] And so God may turn your fasting into feasting, as Zec 8:19. The joyful jubilee was begun and proclaimed in this same tenth day. {Lev 25:8-9}
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain On vv31–32 A sabbath of rest; observed as a sabbath day…
A sabbath of rest; observed as a sabbath day by cessation from all worldly and servile works, and diligent attendance upon God’s worship and service.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain On vv30–33 It shall be a sabbath of rest unto you,....…
It shall be a sabbath of rest unto you,.... From all servile work, as before observed; typical of a cessation from the performance of sinful works, at least from a sinful course of life, and from a dependence on works of righteousness, when a man is brought to believe in Christ, and in the atonement which he has made, see Heb 4:3,
and ye shall afflict your souls by a statute for ever: as long as the ceremonial law, and its statutes and ordinances lasted, which were to be until the time of reformation; and till that time came, once a year, on the day of atonement, they were to keep a severe fast, here called an afflicting of their souls; and in this respect this day differed from the seventh day sabbath, which was rather a festival than a fast, and is what led some of the Heathen writers (z) into that this take, that the Jews fasted on the sabbath day. The time of Christ's sufferings, and of his being a sacrifice for the sins of his people, was a time of great affliction to his disciples; then it was the children of the bridegroom fasted, he being taken from them; and true humiliation for sin, and repentance of it, are occasioned and influenced by a view of a suffering Saviour, and atonement by him; and this may denote also, that such that believe in Christ, and in his atonement, must expect afflictions and troubles in this world,
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(z) Martial. l. 4. Epigram. 4. Justin. e Trogo, l. 36. Suetonius in Vita Octav. Aug. c. 76.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain On vv31, 32, 34 A sabbath - Observed as a sabbath-day from all…
A sabbath - Observed as a sabbath-day from all servile works, and diligent attendance upon God's worship.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain On vv31, 32, 34 Lev 16:31. A sabbath — Observed as a sabbath…
Lev 16:31. A sabbath — Observed as a sabbath day, by cessation from all servile works, and in diligent attendance upon God’s worship.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain On v33 A summary of what was done on the day…
A summary of what was done on the day of atonement.
The day was intended as an occasion for expressing more completely than could be done in the ordinary sacrifices the spiritual truth of atonement, with a fuller acknowledgment of the sinfulness and weakness of man and of the corruptible nature of all earthly things, even of those most solemnly consecrated and devoted to the service of God. It belonged to its observances especially to set forth, by the entrance of the high priest into the holy of holies, that atonement could only he effected before the throne of Yahweh Himself (compare Mat 9:6; Mar 2:7-10; Heb 4:16, etc.); and, by the goat sent into the wilderness, that the sins atoned for were not only forgiven, but carried wholly away. See Lev 16:22 note. The rites were a solemn gathering up of all other rites of atonement, so as to make them point more expressively to the revelation to come of God’s gracious purpose to man in sending His Son to be delivered for our offences, and to rise again for our justification; to be our great high priest forever after the order of Melchisedec, and to enter for us within the veil Rom 4:25; Heb 6:20. The Day of Atonement expanded the meaning of every sin-offering, in the same way as the services for Good Friday and Ash Wednesday expand the meaning of our litany days throughout the year, and Easter Day, that of our Sundays.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain On v31 Of rest. Hebrew, "of sabbaths;" that is, a day…
CHAPTER XVI.
Of rest. Hebrew, "of sabbaths;" that is, a day of most perfect rest; so that even meat is not allowed to be dressed on it, as it is on other festivals, chap. xxiii. 27. (Calmet) --- Religion. Fasting is therefore an act of religion. (Du Hamel)
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain On vv30–34 30. To cleanse you — This cleansing was, 1.)…
30. To cleanse you — This cleansing was, 1.) a restoration of the worshipper to membership and communion with the congregation of Israel; and, 2.) the pretermission or Old Testament forgiveness of sins to the penitent believer in the divine promises. For we cannot admit that there was in the Jewish sacraments an operation of grace propria virtute, that is, by themselves alone, irrespective of the spiritual state of the worshipper. “The perfection of the worshippers is the complete restoration of their peace with God; and this only can be attained by the complete removal of the barrier formed by sin, by making them in the fullest sense cleansed.
Had this ever really been once effected for the congregation of Israel by the annual sacrifices of the day of atonement, no need would have been felt for a repetition of them. But this was not so.” — Delitzsch on Heb_10:2. See Introduction, (7.)
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain On vv31–33 31. a sabbath of solemn rest] Heb. shabbath shabbâthôn,…
31. a sabbath of solemn rest] Heb. shabbath shabbâthôn, here and Lev_23:32 of the Day of Atonement; Exo_31:15; Exo_35:2; Lev_23:3 of the sabbath; Lev_25:4 of the sabbatical year. Shabbâthôn is used of the first day of the seventh month, Lev_23:24, and of the first and eighth days of Tabernacles, Lev_23:39. In Exo_16:23 the order of the two Heb. words is inverted, with ref. to an ordinary sabbath, ‘a solemn rest, a holy sabbath.’
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain On vv30–34 (30) For on that day shall the priest make…
(30) For on that day shall the priest make an atonement.—Literally, For on that day he shall make atonement for you, which may either be the Lord, who is mentioned in the next clause, or, more probably, the high priest, who is mentioned five verses before. (See Lev_16:25, and especially Lev_16:32.)
That ye may be clean . . . —Better, you shall be clean, &c. Because it is here said “you shall be clean from all your sins before the Lord,” the administrators of the law in the time of Christ declared that only the sins which a man commits before, i.e., against the Lord, are atoned for on the Day of Atonement, but the sins which man commits against his fellow man are not forgiven on this day unless we have first satisfied our injured neighbour, and have obtained pardon from him. Again, he who sinneth in the hope that he will obtain absolution on the Day of Atonement, for him there is no forgiveness on this day.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain On vv31–34 "A sabbath of rest.
"A sabbath of rest.
"Ye shall afflict your souls." The true penitence is the true peace. The" sabbath" represents the joyful acceptance of the creature, and his entrance into the Divine satisfaction. The Lord rested, and he invites man to rest with him. Sin is the only obstacle to that reconciliation and fellowship which blends man"s sabbath with God"s sabbath. "Once a year" the Jews celebrated this restoration, to us a statute of daily life every day a sabbath. R.
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On vv32, 34 the one who will be anointed and ordained
the one who will be anointed and ordained
This can be translated in active form. AT: "the one they will anoint and ordain" (See: Active or Passive)
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in his father's place
When the high priest died, one of his sons would replace him.
the holy garments
These are special clothes the high priest must wear when he enters the most holy place.
for all the people of the assembly
"for all the people of Israel"
translationWords
high priest
anoint
ordain
holy place
tent of meeting
altar
priest
assembly
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On v31 16:31 The Day of Atonement was regarded as a…
16:31 The Day of Atonement was regarded as a Sabbath day. No one in the camp, Israelite or foreigner, was permitted to work (see 19:30).
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