Leviticus 16:23

Aaron shall turn again into the tabernacle of witnessing (or Aaron shall return to the Tabernacle of the Witnessing); and when the clothes be put off, in which he was clothed before, when he entered into the saintuary of God, and those clothes be left there,

Wycliffe Modern Spelling

In The King James Version

And Aaron shall come into the tabernacle of the congregation, and shall put off the linen garments, which he put on when he went into the holy place, and shall leave them there:

In Context

22And when the goat buck hath borne all their wickednesses into (a) desert land, and he is let go there,

24he shall wash his flesh in the holy place, and he shall be clothed in his own clothes, and after that he hath gone out, and hath offered the burnt sacrifice of himself, and of the people, he shall pray as well for himself, as for the people; (he shall wash his flesh in a holy place, and he shall be clothed in his own clothes, and after that he hath gone out, and hath offered the burnt sacrifice for himself, and for the people, he shall pray for himself, as well as for the people;)

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Cross References

Leviticus 16:4he shall be clothed with a linen cloth, [and] he shall hide his shamefast members with linen breeches; he shall be girded with a linen girdle, [and] he shall put a linen mitre on his head; for these clothes be holy, with them all he shall be clothed, when he is washed. (and he shall be clothed with a linen cloak, or with a linen robe, and he shall hide his shameful members with linen breeches; and he shall be girded with a linen sash, and put a linen turban on his head; for these clothes be holy, and he shall be clothed with all of them, after that he hath washed himself.)

Ezekiel 44:19And when they shall go out at the outermore foreyard to the people, they shall despoil them (selves) of their clothes in which they ministered, and they shall lay those up in the chamber (s) of the saintuary; and they shall clothe themselves in other clothes, and they shall not hallow my people in their clothes. (And when they shall go out to the outer courtyard to the people, they shall remove the clothes in which they ministered, and they shall put them away, or shall leave them, in the rooms of the sanctuary; and so they shall not hallow, or shall not sanctify, my people, or and so they shall not harm my people with the clothes in which they ministered.)

Philippians 2:6which when he was in the form of God, deemed (it) not raven, that himself were even to God, [or deemed (it) not raven, himself to be even to God], (who when he was in the form of God, reckoned it not robbery, that although he was equal to God,)

Matthew Henry on Leviticus 16:21-29

20 And when he hath made an end of reconciling the holy place, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and the altar, he shall bring the live goat: 21 And Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat, and shall send him away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness: 22 And the goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities unto a land not… Read the whole commentary →

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