Scriptures for the Day of Atonement

 Scriptures for the Day of Atonement.  

I looked up all these scriptures for my own use, to buttress my own thoughts and prayers on this day of atonement.   Others may find it useful too, so here it is… 

Leviticus 16 - instructions for Yom Kippur. (the whole chapter)

Leviticus 16:29-32   An Annual Atonement - 

29 “This shall be a permanent statute**.  (הוקה עולם, a law forever) for you: in the **seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, *you shall humble your souls and not do any work, whether the native, or the alien who sojourns among you; 30 for it is on this day that atonement shall be made ***for you to cleanse you; you will be clean from all your sins before the LORD. 31 It is to be a sabbath of solemn rest for you, that you may humble your souls; it is a permanent statute. 32 So ***the priest who is anointed and ordained to serve as priest in his father’s place shall make atonement: he shall thus put on the linen garments, the holy garments,

Leviticus 16:29-32

• * YOU humble your souls

• *** THE PRIEST makes atonement FOR YOU.    Atonement is made FOR you, Yom Kippur is not a day where YOU do the atonement.   Specifically, This priest was anointed and ordained by His Father.  Yeshua!  

• ** Eternally, forever.  Commemorated on a specific day

Leviticus 23:27-32 - A gathering, a day of rest, an offering by fire. A requirement.

“On exactly the tenth day of this seventh month is the day of atonement; it shall be a holy convocation for you, and you shall humble your souls and present an offering by fire to the LORD.

Leviticus 23:27

You shall not do any work on this same day, for it is a day of atonement, to make atonement on your behalf before the LORD your God.  Leviticus 23:28

If there is any person who will not humble himself on this same day, he shall be cut off from his people.

Leviticus 23:29

Numbers 29:7-11  

Leviticus 16   Two Atonements: one for sin , one to make clean and atone for us

 Two goats sacrificed:  One goat for a sin offering, one goat to make atonement:  the scapegoat, sent alive into the wilderness.  

He shall take the two goats and present them before the LORD at the doorway of the tent of meeting. Aaron shall cast lots for the two goats, one lot for the LORD and the other lot for the scapegoat. Then Aaron shall offer the goat on which the lot for the LORD fell, and make it a sin offering. But the goat on which the lot for the scapegoat fell shall be presented alive before the LORD, to make atonement upon it, to send it into the wilderness as the scapegoat.

“Then Aaron shall offer the bull of the sin offering which is for himself and make atonement for himself and for his household, and he shall slaughter the bull of the sin offering which is for himself.

Leviticus 16:7-11

Psalm 32  - The Blessing of having our sins forgiven. 

​ How blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven,

Whose sin is covered!

How blessed is the man to whom the LORD does not impute iniquity,

And in whose spirit there is no deceit!

When I kept silent about my sin, my body wasted away

Through my groaning all day long.

For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me;

My vitality was drained away as with the fever heat of summer.

Selah.

I acknowledged my sin to You,

And my iniquity I did not hide;

I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the LORD”;

And You forgave the guilt of my sin.

Selah.

Therefore, let everyone who is godly pray to You in a time when You may be found;

Surely in a flood of great waters they will not reach him.

You are my hiding place; You preserve me from trouble;

You surround me with songs of deliverance.

Selah.

I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you should go;

I will counsel you with My eye upon you.

Do not be as the horse or as the mule which have no understanding,

Whose trappings include bit and bridle to hold them in check,

Otherwise they will not come near to you.

Many are the sorrows of the wicked,

But he who trusts in the LORD, lovingkindness shall surround him.

Be glad in the LORD and rejoice, you righteous ones;

And shout for joy, all you who are upright in heart.

Psalms 32

Isaiah 53 - That the Messiah comes to be a sacrifice for sin 

Who has believed our message?

And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?

For He grew up before Him like a tender shoot,

And like a root out of parched ground;

He has no stately form or majesty

That we should look upon Him,

Nor appearance that we should be attracted to Him.

He was despised and forsaken of men,

A man of sorrows and acquainted with grief;

And like one from whom men hide their face

He was despised, and we did not esteem Him.

Surely our griefs He Himself bore,

And our sorrows He carried;

Yet we ourselves esteemed Him stricken,

Smitten of God, and afflicted.

But He was pierced through for our transgressions,

He was crushed for our iniquities;

The chastening for our well-being fell upon Him,

And by His scourging we are healed.

All of us like sheep have gone astray,

Each of us has turned to his own way;

But the LORD has caused the iniquity of us all

To fall on Him.

He was oppressed and He was afflicted,

Yet He did not open His mouth;

Like a lamb that is led to slaughter,

And like a sheep that is silent before its shearers,

So He did not open His mouth.

By oppression and judgment He was taken away;

And as for His generation, who considered

That He was cut off out of the land of the living

For the transgression of my people, to whom the stroke was due?

His grave was assigned with wicked men,

Yet He was with a rich man in His death,

Because He had done no violence,

Nor was there any deceit in His mouth.

But the LORD was pleased

To crush Him, putting Him to grief;

If He would render Himself as a guilt offering,

He will see His offspring,

He will prolong His days,

And the good pleasure of the LORD will prosper in His hand.

As a result of the anguish of His soul,

He will see it and be satisfied;

By His knowledge the Righteous One,

My Servant, will justify the many,

As He will bear their iniquities.

Therefore, I will allot Him a portion with the great,

And He will divide the booty with the strong;

Because He poured out Himself to death,

And was numbered with the transgressors;

Yet He Himself bore the sin of many,

And interceded for the transgressors.

Isaiah 53

Jonah - this is traditionally read on Yom Kippur. The topic of repentance and forgiveness coincides with this set apart time.

Acts 27:9 - New Testament believers kept Yom Kippur

When considerable time had passed and the voyage was now dangerous, since even the fast was already over, Paul began to admonish them,

Acts 27:9

Romans 5 - The blood sacrifice:   the Messiah's blood justifies us, and we are forgiven of our sins through him.

But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Messiah died for us. Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from the wrath of God through Him.

Romans 5:8-9

Hebrews 9-10 - this is a passage with many details on the Messiah's sacrifice and priesthood. It also calls for perseverance of our faith.

Hebrews 13:11-13 - talks about how the Levitical high priest would offer sacrifices on Yom Kippur and compares that to the Messiah's work. 

1 Peter 1:2 - says that we are sprinkled with the Messiah's blood.

… according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, by the sanctifying work of the Spirit, to obey Yeshua HaMaschiach and be sprinkled with His blood: May grace and peace be yours in the fullest measure.

1 Peter 1:2

1 Peter 2:24 - says that the Messiah bore our iniquities on the tree and quotes from Isaiah 53.

and He Himself bore our sins in His body on the cross, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness; for by His wounds you were healed.

1 Peter 2:24

1 John 2:2 - the Messiah is the atoning sacrifice for our sins.

and He Himself is the propitiation for our sins; and not for ours only, but also for those of the whole world.

1 John 2:2

Which points us to keeping this Torah, this commandment

By this we know that we have come to know Him, if we keep His commandments. The one who says, “I have come to know Him,” and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him;

1 John 2:3-4

Yom Kippur & The Book of Life.  

It’s a tradition that on Rosh Hashanah the BOOK OF LIFE is opened, and closed on end of Sukkot

We say to each other on Yom Kippur - “May you be sealed in the Book of Life”

Here are some verses about that…

Daniel 7:10

“A river of fire was flowing

And coming out from before Him;

Thousands upon thousands were attending Him,

And myriads upon myriads were standing before Him;

The court sat,

And the books were opened.

Exodus 32:30 

30 On the next day Moses said to the people, “You yourselves have committed a great sin; and now I am going up to the LORD, perhaps I can make atonement for your sin.”  But now, if You will, forgive their sin—and if not, please blot me out of the book of life.

Phil 4.3  

I ask you also to help these women who have shared my struggle in the cause of the gospel, together with Clement also and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the book of life

Revelation 20:12 12

And I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and books were opened; and another book was opened, which is the book of life; and the dead were judged from the things which were written in the books, according to their deeds.

Revelation 20:14

Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire.

Daniel 7:13-14   

The Son of Man Appears to Daniel in a Prayer vision.

13 “I kept looking in the night visions,

And behold, with the clouds of heaven

One like a Son of Man was coming,

And He came up to the Ancient of Days

And was presented before Him.

14 “And to Him was given dominion,

Glory and a kingdom,

That all the peoples, nations and men of every language

Might serve Him.

His dominion is an everlasting dominion

Which will not pass away;

And His kingdom is one

Which will not be destroyed.