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Leviticus 16:4-15 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

4. He shall be vested with a linen tunick, he shall cover his nakedness with linen breeches: he shall be girded with a linen girdle, and he shall put a linen mitre upon his head: for these are holy vestments: all which he shall put on, after he is washed.

5. And he shall receive from the whole multitude of the children of Israel two buck goats for sin, and one ram for a holocaust.

6. And when he hath offered the calf and prayed for himself, and for his own house,

7. He shall make the two buck goats to stand before the Lord in the door of the tabernacle of the testimony:

8. And casting lots upon them both, one to be offered to the Lord, and the other to be the emissary goat:

9. That whose lot fell to be offered to the Lord, he shall offer for sin:

10. But that whose lot was to be the emissary goat, he shall present alive before the Lord, that he may pour out prayers upon him, and let him go into the wilderness.

11. After these things are duly celebrated, he shall offer the calf, and praying for himself and for his own house, he shall immolate it:

12. And taking the censer, which he hath filled with the burning coals of the altar, and taking up with his hand the compounded perfume for incense, he shall go in within the veil into the holy place:

13. That when the perfumes are put upon the fire, the cloud and vapour thereof may cover the oracle, which is over the testimony, and he may not die.

14. He shall take also of the blood of the calf, and sprinkle with his finger seven times towards the propitiatory to the east.

15. And when he hath killed the buck goat for the sin of the people, he shall carry in the blood thereof within the veil, as he was commanded to do with the blood of the calf, that he may sprinkle it over against the oracle,

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