Leviticus 1:4
Good News Translation
You shall put your hand on its head, and it will be accepted as a sacrifice to take away your sins.

New Revised Standard Version
You shall lay your hand on the head of the burnt offering, and it shall be acceptable in your behalf as atonement for you.

Contemporary English Version
Lay your hand on its head, and I will accept the animal as a sacrifice for taking away your sins.

New American Bible
and shall lay a hand on the head of the burnt offering, so that it may be acceptable to make atonement for the one who offers it.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he shall put his hand upon the head of the victim: and it shall be acceptable, and help to its expiation.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And he shall put his hand upon the head of the victim: and it shall be acceptable, and help to its expiation.

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Leviticus 3:2,8,13 And he shall lay his hand upon the head of his victim, which shall be slain in the entry of the tabernacle of the testimony: and the sons of Aaron the priests shall pour the blood round about upon the altar. . . .

Leviticus 4:4,15,24,29 And he shall bring it to the door of the testimony before the Lord: and shall put his hand upon the head thereof, and shall sacrifice it to the Lord. . . .

Leviticus 8:14,22 He offered also the calf for sin: and when Aaron and his sons had put their hands upon the head thereof, . . .

Leviticus 16:21 And putting both hands upon his head, let him confess all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their offences and sins. And praying that they may light on its head, he shall turn him out by a man ready for it, into the desert.

Exodus 29:10,15,19 Thou shalt present also the calf before the tabernacle of the testimony. And Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands upon his head, . . .

Numbers 8:12 The Levites also shall put their hands upon the heads of the oxen, of which thou shalt sacrifice one for sin, and the other for a holocaust to the Lord, to pray for them.

Isaiah 53:4-6 Surely he hath borne our infirmities and carried our sorrows: and we have thought him as it were a leper, and as one struck by God and afflicted. . . .

2 Corinthians 5:20,21 For Christ therefore we are ambassadors, God as it were exhorting by us, for Christ, we beseech you, be reconciled to God. . . .

be accepted

Leviticus 22:21,27 The man that offereth a victim of peace offerings to the Lord, either paying his vows, or offering of his own accord, whether of beeves or of sheep, shall offer it without blemish, that it may be acceptable. There shall be no blemish in it. . . .

Isaiah 56:7 I will bring them into my holy mount, and will make them joyful in my house of prayer: their holocausts, and their victims shall please me upon my altar: for my house shall be called the house of prayer, for all nations.

Romans 12:1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercy of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, pleasing unto God, your reasonable service.

Philippians 4:18 But I have all and abound: I am filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things you sent, an odour of sweetness, an acceptable sacrifice, pleasing to God.

atonement

Leviticus 4:20,26,31,35 Doing so with this calf, as he did also with that before. And the priest praying for them, the Lord will be merciful unto them. . . .

Leviticus 5:6 And offer of the flocks an ewe lamb, or a she goat, and the priest shall pray for him and for his sin.

Leviticus 6:7 And he shall pray for him before the Lord: and he shall have forgiveness for every thing in doing of which he bath sinned.

Leviticus 9:7 And he said to Aaron: Approach to the altar, and offer sacrifice for thy sin. Offer the holocaust, and pray for thyself and for the people: and when thou hast slain the people's victim, pray for them, as the Lord hath commanded.

Leviticus 16:24 He shall wash his flesh in the holy place, and shall put on his own garments. And after that he is come out and hath offered his own holocaust, and that of the people, he shall pray both for himself, and for the people.

Numbers 15:25,28 And the priest shall pray for all the multitude of the children of Israel: and it shall be forgiven them, because they sinned ignorantly, offering notwithstanding a burnt offering to the Lord for themselves and for their sin and their Ignorance: . . .

Numbers 25:13 And the covenant of the priesthood for ever shall be both to him and his seed, because he hath been zealous for his God, and hath made atonement for the wickedness of the children of Israel.

2 Chronicles 29:23,24 And they brought the he goats for sin before the king, and the whole multitude, and they laid their hand upon them: . . .

Daniel 9:24 Seventy weeks are shortened upon thy people, and upon thy holy city, that transgression may be finished, and sin may have an end, and iniquity may be abolished; and everlasting justice may be brought; and vision and prophecy may be fulfilled; and the Saint of saints may be anointed.

Romans 3:25 Whom God hath proposed to be a propitiation, through faith in his blood, to the shewing of his justice, for the remission of former sins,

Romans 5:11 And not only so: but also we glory in God, through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received reconciliation.

Hebrews 10:4 For it is impossible that with the blood of oxen and goats sin should be taken away.

1 John 2:2 And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for those of the whole world.

Context
Laws for Burnt Offerings
3If his offering be a holocaust, and of the herd, he shall offer a male without blemish, at the door of the testimony, to make the Lord favourable to him. 4And he shall put his hand upon the head of the victim: and it shall be acceptable, and help to its expiation.5And he shall immolate the calf before the Lord: and the priests the sons of Aaron shall offer the blood thereof, pouring it round about the altar, which is before the door of the tabernacle.…
Cross References
Exodus 28:38
Hanging over the forehead of the high priest. And Aaron shall bear the iniquities of those things, which the children of Israel have offered and sanctified, in all their gifts and offerings. And the plate shall be always on his forehead, that the Lord may be well pleased with them.

Exodus 29:10
Thou shalt present also the calf before the tabernacle of the testimony. And Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands upon his head,

Exodus 29:15
Thou shalt take also one ram, upon the head whereof Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands.

Exodus 29:33
That it may be an atoning sacrifice, and the hands of the offerers may be sanctified. A stranger shall not eat of them, because they are holy.

Leviticus 3:2
And he shall lay his hand upon the head of his victim, which shall be slain in the entry of the tabernacle of the testimony: and the sons of Aaron the priests shall pour the blood round about upon the altar.

Leviticus 3:8
He shall put his hand upon the head of the victim. And it shall be slain in the entry of the tabernacle of the testimony: and the sons of Aaron shall pour the blood thereof round about upon the altar.

Leviticus 4:4
And he shall bring it to the door of the testimony before the Lord: and shall put his hand upon the head thereof, and shall sacrifice it to the Lord.

Leviticus 4:20
Doing so with this calf, as he did also with that before. And the priest praying for them, the Lord will be merciful unto them.

Leviticus 4:26
But the fat he shall burn upon it, as is wont to be done with the victims of peace offerings. And the priest shall pray for him, and for his sin: and it shall be forgiven him.

Leviticus 4:29
And he shall put his hand upon the head of the victim that is for sin: and shall immolate it in the place of the holocaust.

Leviticus 4:33
He shall put his hand upon the head thereof, and shall immolate it in the place where the victims of holocausts are wont to be slain.

Numbers 8:10
And when the Levites are before the Lord, the children of Israel shall put their hands upon them:

2 Chronicles 29:23
And they brought the he goats for sin before the king, and the whole multitude, and they laid their hand upon them:

2 Chronicles 29:24
And the priests immolated them, and sprinkled their blood before the altar for an expiation of all Israel: for the king had commanded that the holocaust and the sin offering should be made for all Israel.

Ezekiel 45:15
And one ram out of a flock of two hundred, of those that Israel feedeth for sacrifice, and for holocausts, and for peace offerings, to make atonement for them, saith the Lord God.

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