Leviticus 16:10-22

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Leviticus 16:5-14

The Jewish writers say that for seven days before the day of expiation the high priest was to retire from his own house, and to dwell in a chamber of the temple, that he might prepare himself for the service of this great day. During those seven days he himself did the work of the inferior priests about the sacrifices, incense, etc., that he might have his hand in for this day: he must have the institution read to him again and again, that he might be fully apprised of the whole method. 1. He... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Leviticus 16:15-19

When the priest had come out from the sprinkling the blood of the bullock before the mercy-seat, 1. He must next kill the goat which was the sin-offering for the people (Lev. 16:15) and go the third time into the holy of holies, to sprinkle the blood of the goat, as he had done that of the bullock; and thus he was to make atonement for the holy place (Lev. 16:16); that is, whereas the people by their sins had provoked God to take away those tokens of his favourable presence with them, and... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Leviticus 16:20-28

The high priest having presented unto the Lord the expiatory sacrifices, by the sprinkling of their blood, the remainder of which, it is probable, he poured out at the foot of the brazen altar, 1. He is next to confess the sins of Israel, with both his hands upon the head of the scape-goat (Lev. 16:20, 21); and whenever hands were imposed upon the head of any sacrifice it was always done with confession, according as the nature of the sacrifice was; and, this being a sin-offering, it must be a... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 16:10

But the goat on which the lot fell to be the scapegoat ,.... Or for Azazel, of which more hereafter in the latter part of the verse: shall be presented alive before the Lord ; this seems to be a second presentation; both the goats were presented before the Lord before the lots were cast, Leviticus 16:7 ; but this was afterwards, when one of the goats, according to the lot, being presented, was ordered to be killed for a sin offering, and the other according to the lot being presented... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 16:11

And Aaron shall bring the bullock of the sin offering which is for himself ,.... In the same manner, and is to be understood in the same sense as in Leviticus 16:6 , and shall make atonement for himself and for his house : by a confession of words, as the Targum of Jonathan adds, and which Jarchi calls the second confession; for the same was made, and in the same words as before; see Gill on Leviticus 16:6 , and shall kill the bullock of the sin offering which is for himself ... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 16:12

And he shall take a censer ,.... A fire pan, a sort of chafing dish or perfuming pot; this was a golden one, as appears from Hebrews 9:4 ; hence Christ, the Angel of God's presence, our interceding High Priest, is said to have such an one, Revelation 8:3 ; and so Josephus says F7 Antiqu. l. 3. c. 8. sect. 3. , it was a golden one the high priest used on the day of atonement; with which agree the Misnic doctors F8 Misn. Yoma, c. 4. sect. 4. , who say, on other days he took off... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 16:13

And he shall put the incense upon the fire before the Lord ,.... Both the incense and burning coals of fire being carried within the vail, the incense was put upon the coals, and so it burned before the Lord, whose seat was between the cherubim; and from whence it appears, that this was done, not without but within the vail: the Sadducees under the second temple would have it, that the incense was put upon the fire without the vail, wherefore the high priest, on the evening of this day, was... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 16:14

And he shall take of the blood of the bullock ,.... When the high priest slew the bullock, the blood was received in a basin, and given to another priest, that he might keep stirring it on a foursquare bench in the temple, that so it might not thicken and congeal F14 Misn. Yoma, c. 4. sect. 3. , but by a continual motion might become thin and liquid, and fit for sprinkling; and this was doing, while the high priest was gone into the most holy place to offer the incense; which being... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 16:15

Then shall he kill the goat of the sin offering that is for the people ,.... That upon which the lot came for the Lord, Leviticus 16:9 ; the high priest having sprinkled the blood of the bullock, came out of the most holy place, and went into the court of the tabernacle to the altar of burnt offering, and on the north side of that slew the goat for the sin offering, the place where all such were killed; see Leviticus 1:11 . This was a type of Christ, of his being slain, and made an... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 16:16

And he shall make an atonement for the holy place ,.... Even the holy of holies, as Aben Ezra interprets it, into which the high priest entered with blood for that purpose; the Targum of Jonathan adds, by a verbal confession, that is, of sin; but atonement was not made in that way, but by the blood of the bullock and goat, which was sprinkled towards the mercy seat, above and below: and this was made because of the uncleanness of the children of Israel, and because of their... read more

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