Leviticus 23:28
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“On this day you are not to do any work, for it is the Day of Atonement, when atonement is made for you before the LORD your God.”
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“On this day you are not to do any work, for it is the Day of Atonement, when atonement is made for you before the LORD your God.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“And ye shall do no work in that same day: for it is a day of atonement, to make an atonement for you before the Lord your God.”
King James Version · Public Domain“And ye shall do no manner of work in that same day; for it is a day of atonement, to make atonement for you before Jehovah your God.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“and ye do no work in this self-same day, for it is a day of atonements, to make atonement for you, before Jehovah your God.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Leviticus 23:28 — 14 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Leviticus 16:30because on this day atonement will be made for you to cleanse you, and you will be clean from all your sins before the LORD.
- Leviticus 16:33and make atonement for the Most Holy Place, the Tent of Meeting, and the altar, and for the priests and all the people of the assembly.
- Leviticus 16:34This is to be a permanent statute for you, to make atonement once a year for the Israelites because of all their sins.” And all this was done as the LORD had commanded Moses.
- Isaiah 53:10Yet it was the LORD’s will to crush Him and to cause Him to suffer; and when His soul is made 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.
- Daniel 9:24Seventy weeks are decreed for your people and your holy city to stop their transgression, to put an end to sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy Place.
- Zechariah 3:9See the stone I have set before Joshua; on that one stone are seven eyes. Behold, I will engrave on it an inscription, declares the LORD of Hosts, and I will remove the iniquity of this land in a single day.
- Romans 5:10For if, when we were enemies of God, we were reconciled to Him through the death of His Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through His life!
- Hebrews 9:12He did not enter by the blood of goats and calves, but He entered the Most Holy Place once for all by His own blood, thus securing eternal redemption.
- Hebrews 9:26Otherwise, Christ would have had to suffer repeatedly since the foundation of the world. But now He has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to do away with sin by the sacrifice of Himself.
- Hebrews 10:10And by that will, we have been sanctified through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
- Hebrews 10:14because by a single offering He has made perfect for all time those who are being sanctified.
- 1 John 2:2He Himself is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world.
- 1 John 4:10And love consists in this: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.
- 1 John 5:6This is the One who came by water and blood, Jesus Christ—not by water alone, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit who testifies to this, because the Spirit is the truth.
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