9 October 445 B.C. Day Before the Mass-Bible Reading under Ezra
and Nehemiah
The
Law and History was read widely for hours.
Realizing the massive ignorance, the leaders, Levites and Priests met
with Ezra. A crisis then, like
now…Biblical ignorance.
Leviticus
23.29-32 was covered, that is, preparations for the Feast of Tabernacles. That
was two weeks away and preparations were needed.
Leviticus 23:29-32
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29 For every person that
humbleth not himself that same day, shall even be cut off from his people.
30 And every person that
shall do any work that same day, the same person also will I destroy from among
his people.
31 Ye shall do no manner
work therefore: this shall be a law forever in your generations, throughout
all your dwellings.
32 This shall be unto you
a Sabbath of rest, and ye shall humble your souls: in the ninth day of
the month at even, from [a]even
to even shall ye [b]celebrate
your Sabbath.
Footnotes:
Leviticus 23:32 Which containeth a night and a day: yet they
took it but for their natural day.
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Leviticus 23. 39-42Leviticus 23:39-42
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39 But in the fifteenth
day of the seventh month, when ye have gathered in the fruit of the land, ye
shall keep an holy feast unto the Lord seven days: in the first day shall be
a [a]Sabbath:
likewise in the eighth day shall be a Sabbath.
40 And ye shall take you
in the first day the fruit of goodly trees, branches of palm trees, and the
boughs of [b]thick
trees, and willows of the brook, and shall rejoice before the Lord your God
seven days.
41 So ye shall keep this
feast unto the Lord seven days in the year, by a perpetual ordinance through
your generations: in the seventh month shall you keep it.
42 Ye shall dwell in
booths seven days: all that are Israelites born, shall dwell in booths,
Footnotes:
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The
Feast of Tabernacles began on 22 October with the Day of Atonement, or, the Ym
Kippur, was designated for 17 October.
Leviticus 23:27-28
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Geneva Bible (GNV)
27 The tenth also of this
seventh month, shall be a day of reconciliation: it shall be an holy
convocation unto you, and ye shall [a]humble
your souls, and offer sacrifice made by fire unto the Lord.
28 And ye shall do no work
that same day: for it is a day of reconciliation, to make an atonement for you
before the Lord your God.
Footnotes:
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The
Day of Atonment was the Easter of the Christian period. It taught much about the one, final, sufficient,
efficacious and abiding atonement of the High Priest who offered Himself as the
One, sufficient oblation and sacrifice for the sins of the whole world.
The
OT High Priest entered the Holy of Holies once per year making atonement for
himself and for the sins of the entire nation.
He sprinkled the blood of the covenant variously.
Leviticus 16.1-34
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16 2 The Priest might not
at all times come into the most holy place. 8 The scapegoat. 14 The purging of
the Sanctuary. 17 The cleansing of the Tabernacle. 21 The Priest confesseth the
sins of the people. 29 The feast of cleansing sins.
1 Furthermore the Lord
spake unto Moses, after the death of the two sons of Aaron, when they came to
offer before the Lord, and died:
2 And the Lord said unto
Moses, Speak unto Aaron thy brother, that he come not at [a]all
times into the holy place within the veil, 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 After this sort
shall Aaron come into the Holy place: even 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 shall have linen breeches upon his [b]flesh,
and shall be girded with a linen girdle, and shall cover his head with a linen
miter, these are the holy garments: therefore shall he wash his flesh in water,
when he doth put them on.
5 And he shall take of
the Congregation of the children of Israel, two he goats for a sin offering,
and a ram for a burnt offering.
6 Then Aaron shall offer
the bullock for his sin offering, and make an atonement for himself, and for
his house.
7 And he shall take the
two he goats, and present them before the Lord at the door of the Tabernacle of
the Congregation.
8 Then Aaron shall cast
lots over the two he goats: one lot for the Lord, and the other for the [c]Scapegoat.
9 And Aaron shall offer
the goat, upon which the Lord’s lot shall fall, and make him a sin offering.
10 But the goat, on which
the lot shall fall to be the Scapegoat, shall be presented alive before the
Lord, to make reconciliation by him, and to let him go (as a Scapegoat)
into the wilderness.
11 Thus Aaron shall offer
the bullock for his sin offering, and make a reconciliation for himself, and
for his house, and shall kill the bullock for his sin offering.
12 And he shall take a
censer full of burning coals from off the altar before the Lord, and his hand
full of sweet incense beaten small, and bring it within the [d]veil,
13 And shall put the
incense upon the fire before the Lord, that the [e]cloud
of the incense may cover the Mercy seat that is upon [f]the
Testimony: so he shall not die.
14 And he shall take of
the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it with his finger upon the Mercy seat [g]Eastward:
and before the Mercy seat shall he sprinkle of the blood with his finger seven
times.
15 ¶ Then shall he kill
the goat that is the people’s sin offering, and bring his blood within the veil
and do with that blood, as he did with the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle
it upon the Mercy seat, and before the Mercy seat.
16 So he shall purge the
Holy place from the uncleanness of the children of Israel, and from their
trespasses of all their sins: so shall he do also for the Tabernacle of the
Congregation [h]placed
with them, in the midst of their uncleanness.
17 And there shall be no
man in the Tabernacle of the Congregation, when he goeth in to make an
atonement in the Holy place, until he come out, and have made an atonement for
himself, and for his household, and for all the Congregation of Israel.
18 After, he shall go out
unto the [i]altar
that is before the Lord, and make a reconciliation upon it, and shall take of
the blood of the bullock, and of the blood of the goat, and put it upon the
horns of the Altar round about.
19 So shall he sprinkle of
the blood upon it with his finger seven times, and cleanse it, and hallow it
from the uncleanness of the children of Israel.
20 ¶ When he hath made an
end of purging the Holy place, and the Tabernacle of the Congregation, and the
Altar, then he shall bring the live goat:
21 And Aaron shall put
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 trespasses in all their
sins, putting them [j]upon
the head of the goat, and shall send him away (by the hand of a man
appointed) into the wilderness.
22 So the goat shall bear
upon him all their iniquities into [k]the
land that is not inhabited, and he shall let the goat go into the wilderness.
23 After, Aaron shall come
into the Tabernacle of the Congregation, and put off the linen clothes, which
he put on when he went into the Holy place, and leave them there.
24 He shall wash also his
flesh with water in [l]the
holy place, and put on his own raiment, and come out, and make his burnt
offering and the burnt offering of the people, and make an atonement for
himself, and for the people.
25 Also the fat of the sin
offering shall he burn upon the altar.
26 And he that carried
forth the goat called the Scapegoat, shall wash his clothes, and wash
his flesh in water, and after that shall come into the host.
27 Also the bullock for
the burnt offering, and the goat for the sin offering (whose blood was brought
to make a reconciliation in the Holy place) shall one carry out without the
host to be burnt in the fire, with their skins, and with their flesh, and with
their dung.
28 And he that burneth
them shall wash his clothes, and wash his flesh in water, and afterward come
into the host.
29 ¶ So this shall be an
ordinance forever unto you: the tenth day of the [m]seventh
month, ye shall [n]humble
your souls, and do no work at all, whether it be one of the same country, or a
stranger that sojourneth among you.
30 For that day shall the
Priest make an atonement for you to cleanse you: ye shall be clean from all
your sins before the Lord.
31 This shall be a [o]Sabbath
of rest unto you, and you shall humble your souls by an ordinance forever.
32 And the Priest [p]whom
he shall anoint, and whom he shall consecrate (to minister in his father’s
stead) shall make the atonement, and shall put on the linen clothes and holy
vestments,
33 And shall purge the
holy Sanctuary and the Tabernacle of the Congregation, and shall cleanse the
altar, and make an atonement for the Priests and for all the people of the
Congregation.
34 And this shall be an
everlasting ordinance unto you to make an atonement for the children of Israel
for all their sins once a year: and as the Lord commanded Moses, he did.
Footnotes:
Leviticus 16:2 The high Priest entered into the Holiest of
all but once a year even in the month of September.
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Leviticus 16:8 In Hebrew it is called Azazel, which
some say, is a mountain near Sinai, whither this goat was sent, but rather it
is called the Scapegoat, because it was not offered, but sent into the desert,
as verse
11.
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Leviticus 16:14 That is, on the side which was toward the
people: for the head of the Sanctuary stood Westward.
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Leviticus 16:29 Which was Tishri, and answereth to part of
September, and part of October.
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Leviticus 16:32 Whom the Priest shall anoint by God’s
commandment to succeed in his father’s room.
Christ
was the final High Priest.
Hebrews 9.11-12.
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11 [a]But
Christ being come an high Priest of good things to come, [b]by a [c]greater
and a more perfect Tabernacle, not made with hands, that is, not of this
building,
12 [d]Neither
by the blood of [e]goats
and calves: but by his own blood entered he in once unto the holy place, and
obtained eternal redemption for us.
Footnotes:
Hebrews 9:11 Now he entereth into the declaration of the
figures, and first of all comparing the Levitical high Priest with Christ,
(that is to say, the figure with the thing itself) he attributeth to Christ the
administration of good things to come, that is, everlasting, which those carnal
things had respect unto.
Hebrews 9:11 Another comparison of the first corruptible
Tabernacle with the latter (that is to say, with the human nature of Christ)
which is the true incorruptible Temple of God, whereinto which the Son of GOD
entered, as the Levitical high Priests into the other which was frail and
transitory.
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Hebrews 9:12 Another comparison of the blood of sacrifices
with Christ. The Levitical high Priests entering by their holy places into the
Sanctuary, offered corruptible blood for one year only: but Christ entering
into that holy body of his, entered by it into heaven itself, offering his own
most pure blood for an everlasting redemption: For one selfsame Christ
answereth both to the high Priest, and the Tabernacle, and the sacrifices, and
offering themselves, as the truth to the figures, so that Christ is both the
high Priest, and Tabernacle, and Sacrifice, yea, all these both truly, and
forever.
Hebrews 9:12 For in this yearly sacrifice of
reconciliation, there were two kinds of sacrifices, the one a goat, the other a
heifer, or calf.
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