Verse 3

But instead, these sacrifices serve as a reminder of sins year after year.

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Referenced Verses

  • Heb 9:7 : 7 But only the high priest entered the second room, and only once a year, never without blood, which he offered for himself and for the sins the people had committed in ignorance.
  • Exod 30:10 : 10 Once a year Aaron shall make atonement on its horns with the blood of the sin offering of atonement. Once a year he shall make atonement upon it throughout your generations. It is most holy to the LORD.
  • Lev 16:6-9 : 6 Aaron is to offer the bull for his own sin offering to make atonement for himself and his household. 7 Then he is to take the two goats and present them before the LORD at the entrance to the tent of meeting. 8 He is to cast lots for the two goats—one lot for the LORD and the other for Azazel. 9 Aaron shall bring the goat whose lot falls to the LORD and sacrifice it as a sin offering. 10 But the goat chosen by lot for Azazel shall be presented alive before the LORD to make atonement by sending it into the wilderness to Azazel. 11 Aaron shall bring the bull for his own sin offering to make atonement for himself and his household. He is to slaughter the bull for his own sin offering.
  • Lev 16:21-22 : 21 Aaron shall lay both of his hands on the head of the live goat and confess over it all the iniquities of the Israelites, all their transgressions, and all their sins. He shall put them on the head of the goat and send it away into the wilderness in the custody of a man appointed for the task. 22 The goat will carry on itself all their iniquities to a desolate land, and he shall release the goat into the wilderness.
  • Lev 16:29-30 : 29 This shall be a lasting ordinance for you: On the tenth day of the seventh month, you are to deny yourselves and do no work—whether native-born or a foreigner living among you. 30 Because on this day atonement will be made for you, to cleanse you. Then you will be clean before the LORD from all your sins.
  • Lev 16:34 : 34 This shall be a permanent statute for you, to make atonement for the Israelites for all their sins once a year." And it was done as the LORD commanded Moses.
  • Lev 23:27-28 : 27 However, on the tenth day of this seventh month is the Day of Atonement. You shall hold a sacred assembly, humble yourselves, and present a fire offering to the Lord. 28 You must not do any work on that very day, because it is a Day of Atonement to make atonement for you before the Lord your God.
  • Num 29:7-9 : 7 On the tenth day of the seventh month, you shall hold a sacred assembly and humble yourselves. You shall do no regular work. 8 You shall offer a burnt offering to the Lord, a pleasing aroma: one young bull, one ram, and seven lambs a year old, all without defect. 9 Their grain offering shall be fine flour mixed with oil: three-tenths of an ephah for the bull, two-tenths for the ram, 10 and one-tenth for each of the seven lambs. 11 Include one male goat as a sin offering, in addition to the sin offering of atonement, the regular burnt offering with its grain offering, and their drink offerings.
  • 1 Kgs 17:18 : 18 She said to Elijah, "What have I to do with you, man of God? Have you come to bring my sin to remembrance and to kill my son?"
  • Matt 26:28 : 28 This is My blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.