Leviticus 16

Treated in 10 passages across the library.

The verses these writers stop at

  • 16:2 The LORD said to Moses, "Speak to your brother Aaron. He may not go at any time he pleases into the Most Holy Place behind the curtain, before the mercy seat that is on the ark, so that he will not die. For it is in the cloud above the mercy seat that I appear. 3
  • 16:11 Aaron is to bring forward the bull of his own sin offering and make atonement for himself and his household. He is to slaughter this bull. 1
  • 16:12 He is to fill a censer with burning coals from the altar that stands before the LORD, take two handfuls of fragrant incense ground fine, and carry them in behind the curtain. 1
  • 16:14 Some of the bull's blood he is to take and sprinkle with his finger on the east side of the mercy seat, on its front. In front of the mercy seat, too, he is to sprinkle some of the blood with his finger, seven times. 1
  • 16:16 So he will make atonement for the Most Holy Place, cleansing it from the impurities of the Israelites, from their rebellious acts and all their sins. He is to do the same for the tent of meeting, which stays with them right among their impurities. 1
  • 16:21 Aaron is to lay both his hands on the live goat's head and confess over it all the wrongdoing of the Israelites, all their rebellious acts, all their sins. So he is to place them on the goat's head, and send it off into the wilderness with a man kept ready for that purpose. 1
  • 16:22 The goat will carry all their wrongdoing on itself into a barren land, and the man is to set the goat free in the wilderness. 1
  • 16:27 As for the bull and the goat of the sin offerings, whose blood was taken into the Most Holy Place for atonement, someone is to carry them outside the camp, and there their skins, meat and dung are to be burned. 1

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Where it is preached

  1. Christ the Healer · F. F. Bosworth

    Did Jesus Redeem Us from Our Diseases When He Atoned for Our Sins? cites Lev. 16:22

    …iniquities unto a land not inhabited; and he shall let go the goat in the wilderness.” (Lev. 16:22). So Jesus bore my sins and sicknesses away “without the camp” to the cross. Sin and…

  2. The Ten Commandments · Thomas Watson

    2.2 The Second Commandment cites Lev 16: 14

    …that we have no right to mercy, but through the expiatory sacrifice of Christ’s blood, Lev 16: 14; that the high-priest might not, upon pain of death, come near the mercy-seat without…

  3. The Pilgrim's Progress · John Bunyan

    The Ninth Stage cites Lev. 16:2

    …he sits all the year long to give pardon and forgiveness to them that come. Exod. 25:22; Lev. 16:2; Num. 7:89; Heb. 4:16. I told him, that I knew not what to say when I came; and he bid…

  4. Days of Heaven Upon Earth · A. B. Simpson

    August cites Lev. xvi. 21

    …confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel; transgressions and sins” (Lev. xvi. 21). As any evil comes up, and the consciousness of any unholy thing touches our inner…

  5. The Key Teachings of F. B. Meyer · Ochorus Originals

    The Way into the Holiest cites LEVITICUS 16:2

    …holy place within the vail before the mercy seat, which is upon the ark; that he die not. LEVITICUS 16:2 Then Christ died, and the veil of the temple was torn from top to bottom. Meyer reads it…

  6. The Big Story · Ochorus Originals

    God Moves In cites Leviticus 16:2

    …and God warns Aaron “not to enter freely into the Most Holy Place behind the veil” (Leviticus 16:2). That one day was the Day of Atonement. “Atonement” means making things right between…

  7. The Way Into the Holiest · F. B. Meyer

    Teaching by Contrast cites Lev. xvi. 11

    …himself and his house by the blood of the young bullock, which he had previously killed (Lev. xvi. 11, 12, 13). In these respects, how different is our High-Priest, after the order of…

  8. The Way Into the Holiest · F. B. Meyer

    The Established Heart cites Lev. xvi. 27

    …the blood had been sprinkled before the mercy-seat, should be burned Without the camp (Lev. xvi. 27). And in this mysterious specification, two truths were probably symbolized: first, that…

  9. A Body of Divinity · Thomas Watson

    Christ's Priestly Office cites Lev 16:16

    …intercession makes our prayers go up as a sweet perfume in heaven. It is observable in Lev 16:16. ‘Aaron shall make atonement for the holy place.’ This was typical, to show that our holy…

  10. Knots Untied · J. C. Ryle

    The Priest cites Lev. xvi. 12

    …acceptance, and favour. Like the Jewish Priest, He offers incense within the veil (Lev. xvi. 12, 13), and that incense is mingled with the prayers of His saints. (Rev. viii. 3.) This is…