Leviticus - 16:30



30 for on this day shall atonement be made for you, to cleanse you; from all your sins you shall be clean before Yahweh.

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Explanation and meaning of Leviticus 16:30.

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Upon this day shall be the expiation for you, and the cleansing from all your sins: you shall be cleansed before the Lord.
for on this day he maketh atonement for you, to cleanse you; from all your sins before Jehovah ye are clean;
For on this day your sin will be taken away and you will be clean: you will be made free from all your sins before the Lord.
On this day, there shall be atonement for you, and also a cleansing from all your sins. You shall be cleansed in the sight of the Lord.
In hac enim die expiabit vos ut emundet vos ab omnibus peccatis vestris, coram Jehova mundabimini.

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For on that day shall the priest make an atonement for you to cleanse you,.... By offering the sin offering for them; typical of the sacrifice of Christ, whose soul was made an offering for sin whereby atonement is made for it, and whose blood cleanses from all sin. Though the word "priest" is not in the text, it is rightly supplied, as it is by Aben Ezra, for by no other could, a sacrifice be offered, or atonement made; and on the day of atonement only by the high priest, who was a type of Christ our high priest, who has by his sacrifice made reconciliation for sin, and by himself has purged from it:
that ye may be clean from all your sins before the Lord; which is a general phrase, as Aben Ezra observes, and may be understood of sins of ignorance and presumption; as Christ by his blood and sacrifice has cleansed all his people from all their sins of every sort, so that they stand pure and clean, unblamable and unreproveable, before the throne of God, and in his sight; see Colossians 1:22.

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