Leviticus 16:11-14

The Day of Atonement

¹¹ "Aaron shall present _k the bull as a sin offering for himself, and shall make atonement for himself and for his house. He shall kill the bull as a sin offering for himself. ¹² And he shall take _n a censer full of coals of fire from the altar before the Lord, and two handfuls of sweet incense beaten small, and he shall bring it inside the veil ¹³ _o and put the incense on the fire before the Lord, that the cloud of the incense may cover _p the mercy seat that is over the testimony, so that he does not die. ¹⁴ And _q he shall take some of the blood of the bull and sprinkle it with his finger on the front of the mercy seat on the east side, and in front of the mercy seat he shall sprinkle some of the blood with his finger seven times.

1. Cross References
   Leviticus 16:6
   Aaron shall offer the bull as a sin offering for himself and shall make atonement for himself and for his house.
   
2. Cross References
   Leviticus 10:1
   Now Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, each took his censer and put fire in it and laid incense on it and offered unauthorized fire before the Lord, which he had not commanded them.
   Numbers 16:46
   And Moses said to Aaron, "Take your censer, and put fire on it from off the altar and lay incense on it and carry it quickly to the congregation and make atonement for them, for wrath has gone out from the Lord ; the plague has begun.
   Revelation 8:3 - 5
   And another angel came and stood at the altar with a golden censer, and he was given much incense to offer with the prayers of all the saints on the golden altar before the throne.
   
3. Cross References
   Exodus 30:1
   You shall make an altar on which to burn incense; you shall make it of acacia wood.
   Exodus 30:7 - 8
   And Aaron shall burn fragrant incense on it. Every morning when he dresses the lamps he shall burn it.
   
4. Cross References
   Exodus 25:21
   And you shall put the mercy seat on the top of the ark, and in the ark you shall put the testimony that I shall give you.
   
5. Cross References
   Hebrews 9:13
   For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the sprinkling of defiled persons with the ashes of a heifer, sanctify for the purification of the flesh.
   Hebrews 9:25
   Nor was it to offer himself repeatedly, as the high priest enters the holy places every year with blood not his own.
   Hebrews 10:4
   For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.
   Leviticus 4:5 - 6
   And the anointed priest shall take some of the blood of the bull and bring it into the tent of meeting.