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28 Afterwards, the person doing the burning shall wash his clothes and bathe himself and then return to camp.

29-30 “This is a permanent law: You must do no work on the twenty-fifth day of September,[a] but must spend the day in self-examination and humility. This applies whether you are born in the land or are a foreigner living among the people of Israel; for this is the day commemorating the atonement, cleansing you in the Lord’s eyes from all of your sins.

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  1. Leviticus 16:29 on the twenty-fifth day of September (which was “on the tenth day of the seventh month” of the Hebrew calendar).

28 The man who burns them must wash his clothes and bathe himself with water; afterward he may come into the camp.(A)

29 “This is to be a lasting ordinance(B) for you: On the tenth day of the seventh month(C) you must deny yourselves[a](D) and not do any work(E)—whether native-born(F) or a foreigner residing among you— 30 because on this day atonement will be made(G) for you, to cleanse you. Then, before the Lord, you will be clean from all your sins.(H)

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Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 16:29 Or must fast; also in verse 31