Bible Verses About Under the Law Atonement

Take the ram of consecration, and boil its meat in a holy place.

Aharon and his sons will eat the ram's meat and the bread in the basket at the entrance to the tent of meeting.

They are to eat the things with which atonement was made for them, to inaugurate and consecrate them; no one else may eat this food, because it is holy.

The next day Moshe said to the people, "You have committed a terrible sin. Now I will go up to ADONAI ; maybe I will be able to atone for your sin."

Moshe went back to ADONAI and said, "Please! These people have committed a terrible sin: they have made themselves a god out of gold.

Now, if you will just forgive their sin! But if you won't, then, I beg you, blot me out of your book which you have written!"

ADONAI answered Moshe, "Those who have sinned against me are the ones I will blot out of my book.

Now go and lead the people to the place I told you about; my angel will go ahead of you. Nevertheless, the time for punishment will come; and then I will punish them for their sin."

This is what he is to do with the bull - he must do the same with this bull as he does with the one for the sin offering. Thus the cohen will make atonement for them, and they will be forgiven.

He is to bring the bull outside the camp and burn it as he burned the first bull; it is the sin offering for the assembly.

"'When a leader sins and inadvertently does something against any of the mitzvot of ADONAI concerning things which should not be done, he is guilty.

If the sin which he committed becomes known to him, he is to bring as his offering a male goat without defect,

lay his hand on the goat's head and slaughter it in the place where they slaughter the burnt offering in the presence of ADONAI ; it is a sin offering.

The cohen is to take some of the blood of the sin offering with his finger and put it on the horns of the altar for burnt offerings. Its remaining blood he is to pour out at the base of the altar for burnt offerings.

All its fat he is to make go up in smoke on the altar, like the fat of the sacrifice for peace offerings; thus the cohen will make atonement for him in regard to his sin, and he will be forgiven.

"'If an individual among the people commits a sin inadvertently, doing something against any of the mitzvot of ADONAI concerning things which should not be done, he is guilty.

If the sin he committed becomes known to him, he is to bring as his offering a female goat without defect for the sin he committed,

lay his hand on the head of the sin offering and slaughter the sin offering in the place of burnt offerings.

The cohen is to take some of its blood with his finger and put it on the horns of the altar for burnt offerings. All its remaining blood he is to pour out at the base of the altar.

All its fat he is to remove, as the fat is removed from the sacrifice for peace offerings; and the cohen is to make it go up in smoke on the altar as a fragrant aroma for ADONAI. Thus the cohen will make atonement for him, and he will be forgiven.

"'If he brings a lamb as his sin offering, he is to bring a female without defect,

lay his hand on the head of the sin offering and slaughter it as a sin offering in the place where they slaughter burnt offerings.

The cohen is to take some of the blood of the sin offering with his finger and put it on the horns of the altar for burnt offerings. All its remaining blood he is to pour out at the base of the altar.

All its fat he is to remove, as the fat of a lamb is removed from the sacrifice for peace offerings; and the cohen is to make it go up in smoke on the altar on top of the offerings for ADONAI made by fire. Thus the cohen will make atonement for him in regard to the sin he committed, and he will be forgiven.

ADONAI said to Moshe,