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Leviticus 16:1-6 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

1. And the Lord spoke to Moses, after the death of the two sons of Aaron, when they were destroyed for offering strange fire.

2. And he instructed him, saying: Speak to your brother Aaron, so that he may not, at any time, enter into the Sanctuary, which is within the veil, before the propitiatory by which the ark is covered, so that he may not die, (for I will appear in a cloud above the oracle)

3. unless he will have done these things beforehand. He shall offer a calf for sin, and a ram as a holocaust.

4. He shall be vested with a linen tunic. He shall conceal his nakedness with linen undergarments. He shall be wrapped with a linen belt, and he shall impose a linen headdress on his head. For these are holy vestments. All of these he shall put on, after he has been washed.

5. And he shall receive, from the entire multitude of the sons of Israel, two he-goats for sin, and one ram as a holocaust.

6. And when he has presented the calf, and has prayed for himself and for his own house,

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