100 Bible Verses About Day of Atonement
Bible verses about Day of Atonement
The Day of Atonement, Yom Kippur, is a profound and sacred time ordained by God, offering us a glimpse into His holiness and His desire for reconciliation with humanity. Exploring the scriptures related to this day illuminates the depth of sin and the perfect sacrifice required for atonement. Through these verses, we gain a deeper understanding of God's mercy, justice, and the foreshadowing of Christ's ultimate act of redemption. Let us delve into these passages with reverence, seeking to comprehend the significance of this day and its lasting impact on our spiritual journey, drawing closer to God's grace and forgiveness.
Featured Verse
Exodus 38:8 (KJV)
And he made the laver of brass, and the foot of it of brass, of the lookingglasses of the women assembling, which assembled at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
Day of Atonement: Verses on Forgiveness & Cleansing
And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.
For the Lord shall rise up as in mount Perazim, he shall be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon, that he may do his work, his strange work; and bring to pass his act, his strange act.
The children of Merari by their families had out of the tribe of Reuben, and out of the tribe of Gad, and out of the tribe of Zebulun, twelve cities.
And the west border was to the great sea, and the coast thereof. This is the coast of the children of Judah round about according to their families.
And when they shall blow with them, all the assembly shall assemble themselves to thee at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
Judah and Israel were many, as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking, and making merry.
When the wicked are multiplied, transgression increaseth: but the righteous shall see their fall.
Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O Lord, have we waited for thee; the desire of our soul is to thy name, and to the remembrance of thee.
But thou shalt in any wise let the dam go, and take the young to thee; that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days.
The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression.
A fool’s wrath is presently known: but a prudent man covereth shame.
And David said unto him, From whence comest thou? And he said unto him, Out of the camp of Israel am I escaped.
Joram his son, Ahaziah his son, Joash his son,
And he saw that rest was good, and the land that it was pleasant; and bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a servant unto tribute.
And the Lord hath done to him, as he spake by me: for the Lord hath rent the kingdom out of thine hand, and given it to thy neighbour, even to David:
And every open vessel, which hath no covering bound upon it, is unclean.
And Abraham was old, and well stricken in age: and the Lord had blessed Abraham in all things.
Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
One thousand shall flee at the rebuke of one; at the rebuke of five shall ye flee: till ye be left as a beacon upon the top of a mountain, and as an ensign on an hill.
So I was great, and increased more than all that were before me in Jerusalem: also my wisdom remained with me.
For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no place clean.
And the priest shall take the lamb of the trespass offering, and the log of oil, and the priest shall wave them for a wave offering before the Lord:
For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired, and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen.
Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.
They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless.
Hear, O Lord, and have mercy upon me: Lord, be thou my helper.
In mine ears said the Lord of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant.
For their heart was not right with him, neither were they stedfast in his covenant.
And as they went up the hill to the city, they found young maidens going out to draw water, and said unto them, Is the seer here?
And he shall make amends for the harm that he hath done in the holy thing, and shall add the fifth part thereto, and give it unto the priest: and the priest shall make an atonement for him with the ram of the trespass offering, and it shall be forgiven him.
Surely he scorneth the scorners: but he giveth grace unto the lowly.
And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die: so shalt thou put evil away from among you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear.
In the house of the righteous is much treasure: but in the revenues of the wicked is trouble.
And ye shall not go out from the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, lest ye die: for the anointing oil of the Lord is upon you. And they did according to the word of Moses.
And thou shalt set up the court round about, and hang up the hanging at the court gate.
And Micaiah said, Behold, thou shalt see on that day when thou shalt go into an inner chamber to hide thyself.
Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation: and my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness.
And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say unto you, What mean ye by this service?
Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away.
Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.
And Joshua said unto the people, Ye are witnesses against yourselves that ye have chosen you the Lord, to serve him. And they said, We are witnesses.
Upon a lofty and high mountain hast thou set thy bed: even thither wentest thou up to offer sacrifice.
And they answered them, and said, He is; behold, he is before you: make haste now, for he came to day to the city; for there is a sacrifice of the people to day in the high place:
If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them;
From thirty years old and upward even until fifty years old, all that enter into the host, to do the work in the tabernacle of the congregation.
And unto Aaron was born Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
And this is the blessing of Judah: and he said, Hear, Lord, the voice of Judah, and bring him unto his people: let his hands be sufficient for him; and be thou an help to him from his enemies.
Thou shalt also make a table of shittim wood: two cubits shall be the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof.
And Moses numbered, as the Lord commanded him, all the firstborn among the children of Israel.
And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding,
There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt.
Then David arose from the earth, and washed, and anointed himself, and changed his apparel, and came into the house of the Lord, and worshipped: then he came to his own house; and when he required, they set bread before him, and he did eat.
Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city for lack of five? And he said, If I find there forty and five, I will not destroy it.
As righteousness tendeth to life: so he that pursueth evil pursueth it to his own death.
It repenteth me that I have set up Saul to be king: for he is turned back from following me, and hath not performed my commandments. And it grieved Samuel; and he cried unto the Lord all night.
And Moses made an end of speaking all these words to all Israel:
Say unto them, Whosoever he be of all your seed among your generations, that goeth unto the holy things, which the children of Israel hallow unto the Lord, having his uncleanness upon him, that soul shall be cut off from my presence: I am the Lord.
Arise, O God, judge the earth: for thou shalt inherit all nations.
They had almost consumed me upon earth; but I forsook not thy precepts.
But among these there was not a man of them whom Moses and Aaron the priest numbered, when they numbered the children of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai.
And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honourable.
And they took every man his censer, and put fire in them, and laid incense thereon, and stood in the door of the tabernacle of the congregation with Moses and Aaron.
So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that the Lord said unto Moses; and Joshua gave it for an inheritance unto Israel according to their divisions by their tribes. And the land rested from war.
Then went he also to Ramah, and came to a great well that is in Sechu: and he asked and said, Where are Samuel and David? And one said, Behold, they be at Naioth in Ramah.
And the waters covered their enemies: there was not one of them left.
And Balaam said unto God, Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, hath sent unto me, saying,
Though a sinner do evil an hundred times, and his days be prolonged, yet surely I know that it shall be well with them that fear God, which fear before him:
I called upon the Lord in distress: the Lord answered me, and set me in a large place.
And when the sun is down, he shall be clean, and shall afterward eat of the holy things; because it is his food.
Thou shalt arise, and have mercy upon Zion: for the time to favour her, yea, the set time, is come.
Take heed in the plague of leprosy, that thou observe diligently, and do according to all that the priests the Levites shall teach you: as I commanded them, so ye shall observe to do.
They shall lament for the teats, for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.
Did ever people hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as thou hast heard, and live?
And they shall eat up thine harvest, and thy bread, which thy sons and thy daughters should eat: they shall eat up thy flocks and thine herds: they shall eat up thy vines and thy fig trees: they shall impoverish thy fenced cities, wherein thou trustedst, with the sword.
Also that day they offered great sacrifices, and rejoiced: for God had made them rejoice with great joy: the wives also and the children rejoiced: so that the joy of Jerusalem was heard even afar off.
Until thy brother’s anger turn away from thee, and he forget that which thou hast done to him: then I will send, and fetch thee from thence: why should I be deprived also of you both in one day?
And the priest shall burn the fat upon the altar: but the breast shall be Aaron’s and his sons’.
For they went and served other gods, and worshipped them, gods whom they knew not, and whom he had not given unto them:
And there was a famine in the land, beside the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went unto Abimelech king of the Philistines unto Gerar.
Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin—; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written.
And they that are left of you shall pine away in their iniquity in your enemies’ lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with them.
And that which remaineth of the flesh and of the bread shall ye burn with fire.
And Samson said unto them, I will now put forth a riddle unto you: if ye can certainly declare it me within the seven days of the feast, and find it out, then I will give you thirty sheets and thirty change of garments:
My soul, wait thou only upon God; for my expectation is from him.
And he gave them their request; but sent leanness into their soul.
Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of Egypt unto this day I have even sent unto you all my servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them:
And I will feed them that oppress thee with their own flesh; and they shall be drunken with their own blood, as with sweet wine: and all flesh shall know that I the Lord am thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.
And he made the laver of brass, and the foot of it of brass, of the lookingglasses of the women assembling, which assembled at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
Then the angel of the Lord went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
On this side Jordan, in the land of Moab, began Moses to declare this law, saying,
And it shall come to pass, when the Lord thy God hath brought thee in unto the land whither thou goest to possess it, that thou shalt put the blessing upon mount Gerizim, and the curse upon mount Ebal.
And all the country wept with a loud voice, and all the people passed over: the king also himself passed over the brook Kidron, and all the people passed over, toward the way of the wilderness.
They continue this day according to thine ordinances: for all are thy servants.
Tremble, ye women that are at ease; be troubled, ye careless ones: strip you, and make you bare, and gird sackcloth upon your loins.
And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.
For three things the earth is disquieted, and for four which it cannot bear:
And the priest shall look upon him the seventh day: and if it be spread much abroad in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is the plague of leprosy.
And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
And the Lord was with Judah; and he drave out the inhabitants of the mountain; but could not drive out the inhabitants of the valley, because they had chariots of iron.
The verses explored reveal the Day of Atonement as a pivotal moment for Israel, a divinely ordained opportunity for national cleansing and reconciliation with God. Leviticus 16 meticulously outlines the sacrificial rituals performed by the High Priest, symbolizing the transfer and removal of sin. These verses underscored the seriousness of sin and the necessity of atonement, highlighting God's holiness and His provision for forgiveness. While these specific rituals are no longer practiced, the underlying principles of repentance, seeking God's mercy, and acknowledging our need for atonement remain timeless. Reflect on the depth of God’s love demonstrated through His provision for forgiveness, initially through the Day of Atonement sacrifices and ultimately through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ. Consider how you can apply these principles in your own life, striving for personal holiness and pursuing a deeper relationship with God, continuously seeking His grace and forgiveness.