About the Author of the Blogsite, Not the Author of the Bible::

About the Author of the Blogsite, Not the Author of the Bible: I was uncertain of how to accomplish this, mindful of Revelation 22:18-19, which says that nobody is to add to, or to take away from what was written in the Bible. After lots of prayerful contemplation, the Lord had it on my heart that I’m not to change the meaning of what is written in the Bible. He has also shown ways to add to people’s understating of that meaning, without altering the meaning, by putting that info within [brackets]. This is primarily accomplished with the KJV Bible and lots of prayers, but at times, BibleGateway.com, Biblehub.com, NIV Bible, Webster Dictionary, and other internet resources, as needed. Debra Seiling

About Understanding the Bible:

Understanding the Bible: After reading Isaiah 28:10 many times over the years and not totally understanding it, it recently became apparent to me that the Lord God has this passage as the means for understanding the Bible. For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little. Isaiah 28:10 KJV. Being prayerful about this passage, and looking up 'precept' in the Webster's Dictionary, it gave this passage a whole new meaning, once 'commandment' is substituted for 'precept'. Within brackets are additional words the Lord had on my heart to aid in understanding the meaning. For commandment must be [built up] upon commandment; commandment upon commandment; line upon line, line upon line; [developing understanding] here a little, and there a little.

The Table Format:

The Table Format: I was overwhelmed with how to explain the process for determining if someone had leprosy in Leviticus 13, which seemed very complicated. After praying, "Lord, if this is difficult for me to understand after reading it many times, how can this be explained to others?" The thought the Lord God had on my heart was for me to put it into a vertical chart to visually see the process. This made it much easier for me to follow the progression. After doing so, I prayed, "Lord, how can this be conveyed to readers, so that they can understand this process?" The thought the Lord God had on my heart was to put it within the lines of a table. Being a stiff-necked, stubborn person, as it's often called in the Bible, I prayed, asking the Lord God if He's sure that's really what He wanted me to do? I reluctantly put Leviticus 13 into a table format. When I read this difficult leprosy process within a table format, it suddenly became easier for me to understand. That's because it builds line upon line, as explained in the Understanding the Bible section. Shortly after that, the Lord God had it on my heart, to put all of The Books of the Bible in Smaller Chunks within a table format, to aid in understanding, line upon line.

3/01/2023

Leviticus 16:1-34 Making Atonement in the Holy Place & Releasing the Scapegoat

 

Making Atonement in the Holy Place & Releasing the Scapegoat

Leviticus 16:1-34             The Third Book of Moses Called Leviticus

The Lord [spoke] to Moses after the death of [Aaron’s] 2 sons, when they offered before the Lord & died. [Leviticus 10:1 And Nadab & Abiquiu, the sons of Aaron, [both] took his censer & put fire [in it] & put incense [in there] & offered strange fire before the Lord, which He commanded them not [to do.]

The Lord said to Moses, Speak to Aaron, your brother, [so] that he [doesn’t] come into the Holy Place inside the [veil,] before the mercy seat which is on the ark, [at anytime he wants,] [so] he [doesn’t] die; for I will appear in a cloud upon the mercy seat. 

Aaron shall come into the Holy Place [like this;] with a young [bull] for a sin offering & a ram for a burnt offering. He shall put on the holy linen coat & linen [pants] & shall be [strapped] with a linen [sash] & the linen [turban.] These are holy garments, therefore he shall wash his [body] in water [before putting] them on.

He shall take [from] the congregation of the children of Israel: 2 kid goats for a sin offering & 1 ram for a burnt offering. Aaron shall offer the [bull as a] sin offering for himself & his [family.] 

He shall take the 2 goats & present them before the Lord at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. Aaron shall cast lots [for] the 2 goats & 1 lot for the [goat for] Lord & he will offer [it] as a sin offering.

The other lot [is] for the scapegoat, which will be presented alive before the Lord, to make atonement with [it] & to let [it] go for a scapegoat into the And wilderness. Aaron shall kill the [bull] of the sin offering that is to make atonement for himself & his family.

And he shall take a censer [for incense] full of burning coals of fire, off the altar before the Lord, [with] his hands full of sweet incense beaten [fine] & bring it [inside the veil] & he shall put the incense on the fire before the Lord, [so] that the cloud of incense may cover the mercy seat that is on the Testimony [so] he doesn’t die:

He shall take [some of] the blood of the [bull] with his finger & sprinkle it on the mercy seat eastward & [in front of] the mercy seat. He shall sprinkle [some] of the blood 7 times.

Then he shall kill the goat of the sin offering for the people & bring [its] blood [inside] the veil to do as he [previously] did with the blood of the [bull] & sprinkle it on the mercy seat & [in front of] the mercy seat. 

[Aaron] shall make atonement for the Holy Place, because of the uncleanness of the children [people] of Israel & because of their transgressions & all their sins. [Aaron] shall do [the same] for the tabernacle of the congregations [which] remains among them in the midst of their uncleanness. 

There shall be no man in the tabernacle of the congregation when he goes in to the Holy Place to make atonement for himself, his household & for all the congregation of Israel, until he comes out.

Aaron shall go out to the altar that is before the Lord & make atonement for it & shall take [some] of the blood of the [bull] & the goat & put it on the horns of the altar [all around.] 

[Then,] he shall sprinkle [some] of the blood on it with his finger 7 times [to] cleanse it & [consecrate] it from the uncleanness of the children [people] of Israel. When he has made an end of [atoning for] the Holy Place, the tabernacle of the congregation & the altar, [Aaron] shall bring the live goat.

Aaron shall lay both his hands on the head of the live goat & confess over [it] all the iniquities of the [people] of Israel & all their transgressions [related to] all their sins, putting them on the head of the goat. 

[He] shall send [the live goat] away into the wilderness, by the hand of a [suitable] man.  And the goat shall bear upon him all their [sins] into an uninhabited land. and he shall let fo [of] the goat in the wilderness. [The person who] let the scapegoat go, shall wash his clothes & bathe his [body] in water & afterward come into the camp. 

The goat shall bear on [itself] all their iniquities to an [uninhabited] land & he shall let the goat go in the wilderness. Aaron shall come into the tabernacle of the congregation & [take] off the linen garments, he put on when he went into the Holy Place & shall leave them there.

He shall wash his [body] with water in the holy place & put on his garments, come out & offer his burnt offering & the burnt offering [for] the people & make atonement for himself & the people. He shall burn the fat of the sin offering on the altar.

The [bull] & the goat for the sin offering, whose blood was brought in to make atonement in the Holy Place, [someone] shall [carry them outside] the camp & they shall burn [its] skins, flesh & [waste] in the fire. The [person who] burns them shall wash his clothes & bathe his [body] in water & may come into the camp afterward. 

This shall be a statute forever [for] you, that on the 10th day of the 7th month, you shall [humble] your souls & do no work at all, whether [it's a person] of your own country, or a stranger who [stays] among you.

For on that day the priest shall make an atonement for you, to cleanse you, [so] that you may be clean from all your sins before the Lord. It shall be a Sabbath of [solemn] rest for you & you shall [humble] your souls. It’s a statute forever.

The priest [who is anointed & consecrated] to minister in the priest’s office in his [father, Aaron’s, place] & shall make the atonement & put on the linen clothes & the holy garments.

He shall make atonement for: the Holy Sanctuary, the tabernacle of the congregation & for the altar & he shall make atonement for the priests & all the people of the congregation.

This shall be an everlasting statute for you to make atonement for the children [people] of Israel, for all their sins once a year. [Aaron] did as the Lord commanded Moses.