Leviticus 16
Reading Leviticus chapter 16 in the Douay-Rheims Catholic Bible, public-domain text from 1899.
Verses 1–10
1 And the Lord spoke to Moses, after the death of the two sons of Aaron when they were slain upon their offering strange fire:
2 And 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),
3 Unless he first do these things. He shall offer a calf for sin, and a ram for a holocaust.
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.
5 And he shall receive from the whole multitude of the children of Israel two buck goats for sin, and one ram for a holocaust.
6 And when he hath offered the cattle and prayed for himself and for his own house:
7 He shall make the two buck goats to stand before the Lord in the door of the tabernacle of the testimony.
8 And casting lots upon them both, one to be offered to the Lord, and the other to be the emissary goat:
9 That whose lot fell to be offered to the Lord, he shall offer for sin.
10 But that whose lot was to be the emissary goat, he shall present before the Lord, that he may pour prayers upon him, and let him go into the wilderness.
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