Leviticus 16:3
Good News Translation
He may enter the Most Holy Place only after he has brought a young bull for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering."

New Revised Standard Version
Thus shall Aaron come into the holy place: with a young bull for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering.

Contemporary English Version
Before entering this most holy place, you must offer a bull as a sacrifice for your sins and a ram as a sacrifice to please me.

New American Bible
Only in this way may Aaron enter the inner sanctuary. He shall bring a bull of the herd for a purification offering and a ram for a burnt offering.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Unless he first do these things. He shall offer a calf for sin, and a ram for a holocaust.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Unless he first do these things. He shall offer a calf for sin, and a ram for a holocaust.

Aaron

Hebrews 9:7,12,24,25 But into the second, the high priest alone, once a year: not without blood, which he offereth for his own and the people's ignorance: . . .

a young

Leviticus 4:3 If the priest that is anointed shall sin, making the people to offend, he shall offer to the Lord for his sin a calf without blemish.

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

Numbers 29:7-11 The tenth day also of this seventh month shall be holy and venerable unto you, and you shall afflict your souls; you shall do no servile work therein. . . .

a ram for a burnt-offering

Leviticus 1:3,10 If 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. . . .

Leviticus 8:18 He offered also a ram for holocaust. And when Aaron and his sons had put their hands upon its head:

Leviticus 9:3 And to the children of Israel thou shalt say: Take ye a he goat for sin, and a calf, and a lamb, both of a year old, and without blemish for a holocaust.

Context
The Law of Atonement
2And he commanded him, saying: Speak to Aaron thy brother, that he enter not at all into the sanctuary, which is within the veil before the propitiatory, with which the ark is covered, lest he die, (for I will appear in a cloud over the oracle), 3Unless he first do these things. He shall offer a calf for sin, and a ram for a holocaust.4He shall be vested with a linen tunick: he shall cover his nakedness with linen breeches: he shall be girded with a linen girdle, and he shall put a linen mitre upon his head. For these are holy vestments: all which he shall put on, after he is washed.…
Cross References
Hebrews 9:7
But into the second, the high priest alone, once a year: not without blood, which he offereth for his own and the people's ignorance:

Leviticus 4:1
And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

Leviticus 16:6
And when he hath offered the cattle and prayed for himself and for his own house:

Numbers 29:11
And a buck goat for sin, besides the things that are wont to be offered for sin, for expiation, and for the perpetual holocaust with their sacrifice and libations.

Leviticus 16:2
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