Leviticus 16:32
Good News Translation
The High Priest, properly ordained and consecrated to succeed his father, is to perform the ritual of purification. He shall put on the priestly garments

New Revised Standard Version
The priest who is anointed and consecrated as priest in his father’s place shall make atonement, wearing the linen vestments, the holy vestments.

Contemporary English Version
The high priest must offer the sacrifices for cleansing from sin, while wearing the sacred linen clothes.

New American Bible
This atonement is to be made by the priest who has been anointed and ordained to the priesthood in succession to his father. He shall wear the linen garments, the sacred vestments,

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the priest that is anointed, and whose hands are consecrated to do the office of the priesthood in his father's stead, shall make atonement. And he shall be vested with the linen robe and the holy vestments.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And the priest that is anointed, and whose hands are consecrated to do the office of the priesthood in his father's stead, shall make atonement. And he shall be vested with the linen robe and the holy vestments.

the priest

Leviticus 4:3,5,16 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. . . .

consecrate [heb] fill his hand

Exodus 29:9 To wit, Aaron and his children, and thou shalt put mitres upon them; and they shall be priests to me by a perpetual ordinance. After thou shalt have consecrated their hands,

to minister

Exodus 29:29,30 And the holy vesture, which Aaron shall use, his sons shall have after him, that they may be anointed, and their hands consecrated in it. . . .

Numbers 20:26-28 And when thou hast stripped the father of his vesture, thou shalt vest therewith Eleazar his son: Aaron shall be gathered to his people, and die there. . . .

put on the linen

Leviticus 16:4 He 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.

Context
The Day of Atonement
31For it is a sabbath of rest: and you shall afflict your souls by a perpetual religion. 32And the priest that is anointed, and whose hands are consecrated to do the office of the priesthood in his father's stead, shall make atonement. And he shall be vested with the linen robe and the holy vestments.33And he shall expiate the sanctuary and the tabernacle of the testimony and the altar: the priest also and all the people.…
Cross References
Leviticus 16:4
He 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.

Leviticus 16:33
And he shall expiate the sanctuary and the tabernacle of the testimony and the altar: the priest also and all the people.

Leviticus 16:31
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