Leviticus 16:2
indeed, YHWH says to Moses, “Speak to your brother Aaron, and he does not come in at all times to the holy place within the veil, to the front of the propitiatory covering, which [is] on the Ark, and he does not die, for I am seen in a cloud on the propitiatory covering.
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Exodus 25:17And you have made a propitiatory covering of pure gold, two cubits and a half its length, and a cubit and a half its breadth;
Exodus 26:33And you have put the veil under the hooks, and have brought in the Ark of the Testimony there within the veil; and the veil has made a separation for you between the holy and the Holy of Holies.
Exodus 40:20And he takes and puts the Testimony into the Ark, and sets the poles on the Ark, and puts the propitiatory covering on the Ark above;
Leviticus 8:35and you abide at the opening of the Tent of Meeting by day and by night [for] seven days, and you have kept the charge of YHWH, and do not die, for so I have been commanded.”
Leviticus 16:34And this has been for a continuous statute to you, to make atonement for the sons of Israel, because of all their sins, once in a year”; and he does as YHWH has commanded Moses.
Numbers 4:19but do this for them, and they have lived and do not die in their drawing near [to] the Holy of Holies: Aaron and his sons go in, and have set them, each man to his service, and to his burden,
Matthew Henry on Leviticus 16:2-5
The Great Day of Atonement. ( b. c. 1490.) 1 And the Lord spake unto Moses after the death of the two sons of Aaron, when they offered before the Lord , and died; 2 And the Lord said unto Moses, Speak unto Aaron thy brother, that he come not at all times into the holy place within the vail before the mercy seat, which is upon the ark; that he die not: for I will appear in the cloud upon the mercy seat. 3 Thus shall Aaron come into the holy place : with a young bullock for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt… Read the whole commentary →