Hebrews 10:3

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Hebrews 10:1–5 · Berean Standard Bible

1 For the law is only a shadow of the good things to come, not the realities themselves. It can never, by the same sacrifices offered year after year, make perfect those who draw near to worship.

2 If it could, would not the offerings have ceased? For the worshipers would have been cleansed once for all, and would no longer have felt the guilt of their sins.

3 Instead, those sacrifices are an annual reminder of sins,

4 because it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.

5 Therefore, when Christ came into the world, He said: “Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, but a body You prepared for Me.

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Hebrews 9:7

But only the high priest entered the second room, and then only once a year, and never without blood, which he offered for himself and for the sins the people had committed in ignorance.

Exodus 30:10

Once a year Aaron shall make atonement on the horns of the altar. Throughout your generations he shall make atonement on it annually with the blood of the sin offering of atonement. The altar is most holy to the LORD.”

Leviticus 16:6

Aaron is to present the bull for his sin offering and make atonement for himself and his household.

Leviticus 16:7

Then he shall take the two goats and present them before the LORD at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.

Leviticus 16:8

After Aaron casts lots for the two goats, one for the LORD and the other for the scapegoat,

Leviticus 16:9

he shall present the goat chosen by lot for the LORD and sacrifice it as a sin offering.

Leviticus 16:10

But the goat chosen by lot as the scapegoat shall be presented alive before the LORD to make atonement by sending it into the wilderness as the scapegoat.

Leviticus 16:11

When Aaron presents the bull for his sin offering and makes atonement for himself and his household, he is to slaughter the bull for his own sin offering.

Leviticus 16:21

Then he is to lay both hands on the head of the live goat and confess over it all the iniquities and rebellious acts of the Israelites in regard to all their sins. He is to put them on the goat’s head and send it away into the wilderness by the hand of a man appointed for the task.

Leviticus 16:22

The goat will carry on itself all their iniquities into a solitary place, and the man will release it into the wilderness.

Leviticus 16:29

This is to be a permanent statute for you: On the tenth day of the seventh month, you shall humble yourselves and not do any work—whether the native or the foreigner who resides among you—

Leviticus 16:30

because on this day atonement will be made for you to cleanse you, and you will be clean from all your sins before the LORD.

Leviticus 16:34

This is to be a permanent statute for you, to make atonement once a year for the Israelites because of all their sins.” And all this was done as the LORD had commanded Moses.

Leviticus 23:27

“The tenth day of this seventh month is the Day of Atonement. You shall hold a sacred assembly and humble yourselves, and present an offering made by fire to the LORD.

Leviticus 23:28

On this day you are not to do any work, for it is the Day of Atonement, when atonement is made for you before the LORD your God.

Numbers 29:7

On the tenth day of this seventh month, you are to hold a sacred assembly, and you shall humble yourselves; you must not do any work.

Numbers 29:8

Present as a pleasing aroma to the LORD a burnt offering of one young bull, one ram, and seven male lambs a year old, all unblemished,

Numbers 29:9

together with their grain offerings of fine flour mixed with oil—three-tenths of an ephah with the bull, two-tenths of an ephah with the ram,

Numbers 29:10

and a tenth of an ephah with each of the seven lambs.

Numbers 29:11

Include one male goat for a sin offering, in addition to the sin offering of atonement and the regular burnt offering with its grain offering and drink offerings.

1 Kings 17:18

“O man of God,” said the woman to Elijah, “what have you done to me? Have you come to remind me of my iniquity and cause the death of my son?”

Matthew 26:28

This is My blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.