Leviticus 16:24

American Standard Version (1901)

and he shall bathe his flesh in water in a holy place, and put on his garments, and come forth, and offer his burnt-offering and the burnt-offering of the people, and make atonement for himself and for the people.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְרָחַ֨ץ אֶת־בְּשָׂר֤וֹ בַמַּ֙יִם֙ בְּמָק֣וֹם קָד֔וֹשׁ וְלָבַ֖שׁ אֶת־בְּגָדָ֑יו וְיָצָ֗א וְעָשָׂ֤ה אֶת־עֹֽלָתוֹ֙ וְאֶת־עֹלַ֣ת הָעָ֔ם וְכִפֶּ֥ר בַּעֲד֖וֹ וּבְעַ֥ד הָעָֽם׃

Transliteration

And-rāḥaṣ ʾet-beśāro in-the-mayim in-māqom qādosh and-lāvash ʾet-begādāyw and-yāṣāʾ and-ʿāśāh ʾet-ʿolāto and-ʾet-ʿolat hā-ʿām and-kipper for-himself and-for the-ʿām.

Grammar Details

• *rāḥaṣ*: qal perfect, 3rd masculine singular - he washed
• *ʾet*: direct object marker
• *beśāro*: masculine singular noun with 3rd masculine singular suffix - his flesh/body
• *mayim*: masculine plural noun - water
• *māqom qādosh*: masculine singular noun + masculine singular adjective - holy place
• *lāvash*: qal perfect, 3rd masculine singular - he put on/wore/clothed
• *begādāyw*: masculine plural noun with 3rd masculine singular suffix - his garments
• *yāṣāʾ*: qal perfect, 3rd masculine singular - he went out/came out
• *ʿāśāh*: qal perfect, 3rd masculine singular - he did/made/prepared
• *ʿolāto*: feminine singular noun with 3rd masculine singular suffix - his burnt offering
• *ʿolat hā-ʿām*: feminine singular construct + definite article + masculine singular noun - burnt offering of the people
• *kipper*: piel perfect, 3rd masculine singular - make atonement/purify/cover
• *ʿām*: masculine singular noun - people

Word Meanings

• *rāḥaṣ*: wash/bathe/cleanse
• *beśāro*: his flesh/his body/his skin
• *māqom qādosh*: holy place/sacred place
• *lāvash*: put on/wear/clothe
• *ʿolāto*: his burnt offering/his holocaust
• *kipper*: make atonement/purify/cover/wipe away/pacify

Referenced Verses

• Lev 16:3-5 : 3 Herewith shall Aaron come into the holy place: with a young bullock for a sin-offering, and a ram for a burnt-offering. 4 He shall put on the holy linen coat, and he shall have the linen breeches upon his flesh, and shall be girded with the linen girdle, and with the linen mitre shall he be attired: they are the holy garments; and he shall bathe his flesh in water, and put them on. 5 And he shall take of the congregation of the children of Israel two he-goats for a sin-offering, and one ram for a burnt-offering.
• Lev 22:6 : 6 the soul that toucheth any such shall be unclean until the even, and shall not eat of the holy things, unless he bathe his flesh in water.
• Heb 9:10 : 10 [ being] only (with meats and drinks and divers washings) carnal ordinances, imposed until a time of reformation.
• Heb 10:19-22 : 19 Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holy place by the blood of Jesus, 20 by the way which he dedicated for us, a new and living way, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh; 21 and [having] a great priest over the house of God; 22 let us draw near with a true heart in fulness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience: and having our body washed with pure water,
• Rev 1:5-6 : 5 and from Jesus Christ, [who is] the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loveth us, and loosed us from our sins by his blood; 6 and he made us [to be] a kingdom, [to be] priests unto his God and Father; to him [be] the glory and the dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
• Exod 28:4-9 : 4 And these are the garments which they shall make: a breastplate, and an ephod, and a robe, and a coat of checker work, a mitre, and a girdle: and they shall make holy garments for Aaron thy brother, and his sons, that he may minister unto me in the priest's office. 5 And they shall take the gold, and the blue, and the purple, and the scarlet, and the fine linen. 6 And they shall make the ephod of gold, of blue, and purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of the skilful workman. 7 It shall have two shoulder-pieces joined to the two ends thereof, that it may be joined together. 8 And the skilfully woven band, which is upon it, wherewith to gird it on, shall be like the work thereof [and] of the same piece; of gold, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen. 9 And thou shalt take two onyx stones, and grave on them the names of the children of Israel: 10 six of their names on the one stone, and the names of the six that remain on the other stone, according to their birth. 11 With the work of an engraver in stone, like the engravings of a signet, shalt thou engrave the two stones, according to the names of the children of Israel: thou shalt make them to be inclosed in settings of gold. 12 And thou shalt put the two stones upon the shoulder-pieces of the ephod, to be stones of memorial for the children of Israel: and Aaron shall bear their names before Jehovah upon his two shoulders for a memorial. 13 And thou shalt make settings of gold, 14 and two chains of pure gold; like cords shalt thou make them, of wreathen work: and thou shalt put the wreathen chains on the settings.
• Exod 29:4-5 : 4 And Aaron and his sons thou shalt bring unto the door of the tent of meeting, and shalt wash them with water. 5 And thou shalt take the garments, and put upon Aaron the coat, and the robe of the ephod, and the ephod, and the breastplate, and gird him with the skilfully woven band of the ephod;
• Lev 8:6-9 : 6 And Moses brought Aaron and his sons, and washed them with water. 7 And he put upon him the coat, and girded him with the girdle, and clothed him with the robe, and put the ephod upon him, and he girded him with the skilfully woven band of the ephod, and bound it unto him therewith. 8 And he placed the breastplate upon him: and in the breastplate he put the Urim and the Thummim. 9 And he set the mitre upon his head; and upon the mitre, in front, did he set the golden plate, the holy crown; as Jehovah commanded Moses.
• Lev 14:9 : 9 And it shall be on the seventh day, that he shall shave all his hair off his head and his beard and his eyebrows, even all his hair he shall shave off: and he shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe his flesh in water, and he shall be clean.