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Families rest with bowed heads in the camp facing the sanctuary. The accompanying verses establish the tenth day of the seventh month, humility and cessation from work for native-born and sojourner alike, and atonement to cleanse the people from their sins.
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Leviticus 16:29-31

A Sabbath of humility

The Day of Atonement · Leviticus 16

Story guide: Families rest with bowed heads in the camp facing the sanctuary. The accompanying verses establish the tenth day of the seventh month, humility and cessation from work for native-born and sojourner alike, and atonement to cleanse the people from their sins.

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29And this shall be for you a permanent statute: in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you shall humble yourselves, and you shall do no work, whether the native-born or the sojourner who sojourns among you.

30For on this day atonement shall be made for you to cleanse you; from all your sins before Yahweh you shall be clean.

31It is a Sabbath of complete rest for you, and you shall humble yourselves; it is a permanent statute.

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