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What the Scriptures says about Yom Kippur or Day of Atonement



1) Yeshua said, “ Let the little children come to me. Don’t keep them away. The kingdom of heaven belongs to people like them.” Yeshua placed his hands on them. Then he went on from there.

Matthew 19:14


2) “Here is a law for you that will last for all time to come. On the tenth day of the seventh month you must not eat anything. You must not do any work. It does not matter whether you are Israelites or outsiders.

Leviticus 16:29


3) But they make themselves low in my sight. They pray and look to me. And they turn from their evil ways. Then I will listen to them from heaven. I will forgive their sin. And I will heal their land. After all, they are my people.

2nd Chronicles 7:14


4) Everyone will know me. From the least important of them to the most important, all of them will know me,” announces Yahovah. “I will forgive their evil ways. I will not remember their sins anymore.”

Jeremiah 31:34


5) But suppose we walk in the light, just as he is in the light. Then we share life with one another. And the blood of Yeshua, his son, makes us pure from all sin.

1st John 1:7


6) Yahovah, who is a Yahweh like you? You forgive your people when they do what is wrong. You don’t stay anger forever. Instead, you take delight in showing your faithful love to them. Once again you will show loving concern for us. You will completely wipe out the evil things we’ve done. You will throw all of our sins into the bottom of the sea.

Micah 7:18- 19


7) He has removed our lawless acts from us as far as the east is from the west.

Psalms 103:12


8) He heals those who have broken hearts. He takes care of their wounds.

Psalms 147:3


9) But Yahweh is faithful and fair. If we admit that we have sinned, he will forgive us our sins. He will forgive every wrong thing we have done. He will make us pure.

1st John 1:9


10) Anyone who hides his sins doesn’t succeed. But anyone who admits his sins and gives them up finds mercy.

Proverbs 28:13


11) Yahovah is not slow to keep his promise. He is not slow in the way some people understand it. He is patient with you. He doesn’t want anyone to be destroyed. Instead, he wants all people to turn away from their sins.

2nd Peter 3:9


12) So turn away from your sins. Turn to Yahweh. Then your sins will be wiped away. The time will come when Yahovah will make everything new.

Acts 3:19


13) Produce fruit that shows you have turned away from your sins.

Matthew 3:8


14) Don’t just tear your clothes to show how sad you are. Let your hearts be broken. Return to Yahovah your Elohim. He is gracious. He takes pity on you. He is slow to get angry. He is tender and kind. He won’t destroy you.

Joel 2:13


15) Priests, blow the trumpets in Zion. Announce a holy fast. Tell the people not to eat anything. Gather them together for a special service.

Joel 2:15

16) From that time on Yeshua began to preach. “Turn away from your sins! ” he said. “The kingdom of heaven is near.”

Matthew 4:17


17) “Suppose you return to Yahovah. Then those who captured your relatives and children will be kind to them. In fact, your relatives and children will come back to this land. Yahovah your Elohim is kind and tender. He won’t turn away from you if you return to him.”

2nd Chronicles 30:9


18) ‘I correct and train those I love. So be sincere, and turn away from your sins.

Revelation 3:19


19) Peter replied. “ All of you must turn away from your sins and be baptized in the name of Yeshua. Then your sins will be forgiven. You will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Acts 2:38


20) When anyone dies, it does not give me any joy,” announces Yahovah and king. “ So turn away from your sins. Then you will live!

Ezekiel 18:32


21) In the past, Yahweh didn’t judge people for what they didn’t know. But now he commands all people everywhere to turn away from their sins.

Acts 17:30


22) “I tell you, it is the same in heaven. There is joy in heaven over one sinner who turns away from sin.”

Luke 15:10


23) “The time has come,” he said. “ The kingdom of Elohim is near. Turn away from your sins and believe the good news! ”

Mark 1:15


24) And now he says to us, “ return to me. Then I will return to you,” announces Yahovah.

Zechariah 1:3


25) Yahovah told me, “ Shout out loud. Do not hold back. Raise your voice like a trumpet. Tell my people that they have refused to obey me. Tell the family of Jacob how much they have sinned. Day after day they worship me. They seem ready and willing to know how I want them to live. They act as if they were a nation that does what is right. They act as if they have not turned away from my commands. They claim to want me to give them fair decisions. They seem ready and willing to come near and worship me. ‘ We have gone without food,’ they say. ‘ Why haven’t you noticed it? We have made ourselves suffer. Why haven’t you paid any attention to us?’ “ On the day when you fast, you do as you please. You take advantage of all of your workers. When you fast, it ends in arguing and fighting. You hit one another with your fists. That is an evil thing to do. The way you are now fasting keeps your prayers from bring heared in heaven. Do you think that is the way I want you to fast? Is it only a time for a man to make himself suffer? Is it only for people to bow their heads like tall grass that is bent by the wind? Is it only for people to lie down on black cloth and ashes? Is that what you call a fast? Do you think I can accept that? “ Here is the way I want you too fast. “ Set free those who are held by chains without any reason. Untie the ropes that hold people as slaves. Set free those who are crushed. Break every evil chain. Share your food with hungry people. Provide for the needs of your own family. Then the light of my blessing will shine on you like the rising sun. I will heal you quickly. I will march out ahead of you. And my glory will follow behind you and guard you. That is because I always do what is right. You will call out to me for help. And I will answer you. You will cry out. And I will say, ‘ Here I am.’ “ Get rid of the chains you use to hold others down. Stop pointing your finger at others as if they had done something wrong. Stop saying harmful things about them.

Isaiah 58:1- 9


26) A lot of time had passed. Sailing had already become dangerous. By now it was after the day of Atonement, a day of fasting. So Paul gave them a warning.

Acts 27:9


27) “ ‘On the tenth day of the seventh month, come together for a special service. You must not eat anything on that day. You must not do any work on it.

Numbers 29:7


28) That day is a sabbath for you. You must rest on it. You must not eat anything on that day. That is a law that will last for all time to come.

Leviticus 16:31


29) “Here is a law for you that will last for all time to come. Once a year you must pay for all of the sin of the people of Isreal.” So it was done, just as Yahovah commanded Moses.

Leviticus 16:34


30) “On that day your sin will be paid for. You will be made pure and clean. You will be clean from all of your sins in my sight.

Leviticus 16:30


31) Yahovah spoke to Moses. He said, “ The tenth day of the seventh month is the day when sin is paid for. Come together for a special service. Do not eat any food. Bring an offering that is made to me with fire.

Leviticus 23:26- 27


32) “That day is a sabbath for you. You must rest on it. You must not eat anything on that day. You must keep your sabbath from the evening of the ninth day of the month until the following evening.”

Leviticus 23:32


33) Do not do any work on that day. It is the day when sin is paid for. On that day your sin will be paid for in my sight. I am Yahovah your Yahweh.

Leviticus 23:28


34) “ ‘The life of each creature is in it’s blood. So I have given you the blood of animals to pay for your sin on the altar. Blood is life. That is why blood pays for your sin.

Leviticus 17:11


35) And everyone will see Yahweh’s salvation.’ ”

Luke 3:6


36) I announced a fast by the waterway that flows toward Ahava. I told the people not to eat any food. In that way, we made ourselves low in the sight of Yahweh. We prayed that he would give us and our children a safe journey. We asked him to keep safe everything we owned.

Ezra 8:21


37) But christ offered himself to Yahweh without any flaw. He did this through the power of eternal Holy Spirit. So how much more will his blood wash from our minds our feelings of guilt for committing sin! Sin always leads to death. But now we can serve the living Yahweh.

Hebrews 9:14


38) The worshipers would have been made clean once and for all time. They would not have felt guilty for their sins anymore. But those offerings remind people of their sins every year. It isn’t possible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.

Hebrews 10:2- 3


39) Day after day every priest stands and does his special duties. He offers the same sacrifices again and again. But they can never take away sins. Yeshua our priest offered one sacrifice for sins for all time. Then he sat down at the right hand of Yahweh.

Hebrews 10:11- 12


40) Don’t you know that you yourself are Yahweh’s temple? Elohim’s spirit lives in you.

1st Corinthians 3:16


41) Yahovah said to him, “ Go all through Jerusalem. Look for those who are sad and sorry about all of the things that are being done there. I hate those things. Put a mark on the foreheads of those people.”

Ezekiel 9:4


42) “Suppose an outsider who is living among you wants to celebrate Yahovah’s passover. Then all of the males in that home must be circumcised. After that, the person can take part, just like an Israelite. Only males who are circumcised can eat it.

Exodus 12:48


43) Each virgin had to complete 12 months of beauty care. They used oil of myrrh for six months. And they used perfume and make up for the other six months. A virgin’s turn to go in to King Xerxes could come only after a full 12 months had passed.

Esther 2:12


44) ’But here is what I have against you. You put up with that woman Jezebel. She calls herself a prophet. With her teaching, she has led my servants into sexual sin. She has tricked them into eating food offered to statues of gods.

Revelation 2:20


45) You always do what is right. And your law is true.

Psalms 119:142


46) He did it to make her holy. He made her clean by washing her with water and the word.

Ephesians 5:26


47) Now we see only a dim likeness of things. It is as if we were seeing them in a mirror. But someday we will see clearly. We will see face to face. What I know now is not complete. But someday I will know complete, just as Yahweh knows me completely.

1st Corinthians 13:12


48) Yahovah yahweh said, “ made cloths out of animal skins for Adam and his wife to wear.

Genesis 3:21


49) “The son of man will come in all his glory. All the angels will come with him. Then he will sit on his throne in the glory of heaven.

Matthew 25:31


50) “Suppose your people sin against you. After all, there isn’t anyone who doesn’t sin. And suppose you get angry with them. You hand them over to their enemies. They take them as prisoners to their own land. It doesn’t matter whether it’s near or far away. “ But suppose your people change their ways in the land where they are held as prisoners. They turn away from their sins. They beg you to help them in the land of those who won the battle over them. They say, ‘ we have sinned. We’ve done what is wrong. We’ve done what is evil.’

1st Kings 8:46- 47


51) “But now in Yeshua you, who once were far away have been brought near by the blood of christ.”

Ephesians 2:13


52) “Aaron must offer the bull for his own sin offering. It will pay for his own sin and the sin of his whole family.

Leviticus 16:6


53) First I preached to people in Damascus. Then I preached in Jerusalem and in all Judea. I preached also to people who are not Jews. I told them to turn away from their sins to Yahweh. The way they live must prove that they have turned away from their sins.

Acts 26:20

54) Yahovah, who is a Elohim like you? You forgive sin. You forgive your people when they do what is wrong. You don’t stay angry forever. Instead, you take delight in showing your faithful love to them. Once again you will show loving concern for us. You will completely wipe out the evil things we’ve done. You will throw all of our sins into the bottom of the sea.

Micah 7:18- 19


55) Ephraim. I will be like a lion to you. Judah. I will attack you like a powerful lion. I will tear you to pieces. I will drag you off then I will leave you. No one will be able to save you. I will go back to my home in heaven. I will stay there until you admit you have sinned. Then you will turn to me. You will suffer so much that you will really want me to help you.”

Hosea 5:14- 15


56) The people of Jacob will have to pay for their sin. That must happen in order for their sin to be taken away. They will make all of the alter stones like chalk. They will crush them to pieces. No poles that had been used to worship goddess Asherah will be left standing. No incense alters will be left either.

Isaiah 27:9


57) Yahovah and king is the holy one of Israel. He says, “ You will find peace and rest when you turn away from your sins and depend on me. You will receive the strength you need when you stay clam and trust in me. But you do not want to do what I tell you to.

Isaiah 30:15


58) Stop judging only by what you see. Judge correctly.

John 7:24


59) After a long time, the king of Egypt died. The people of Israel groaned because they were slaves. They also cried out to Yahweh. Their cry for help went up to him. Yahweh heard their groans. He remembered his covenant with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. So Elohim looked on the Israelites with favor. He was concerned about them.

Exodus 2:23- 25


60) People of Ephraim, you brag, “ We are very rich. We’ve become weathly. And no one can prove we sinned to gain all of this wealth.”

Hosea 12:8


61) Annouce a holy fast. Tell the people not to eat anything. Gather them together for a special service. Send for all of the elders who live in the land. Have them come to the house of Yahovah you’re Elohim. And pray to him.

Joel 1:14


62) Israel, return to Yahovah your Elohim. Your sins have destroyed you! Telll Yahovah you are turning away from your sins. Return to him. Say to him. “ Forgive us for all of our sins. Please be kind to us. Welcome us back to you. Then our lips will offer you our praise.

Hosea 14:1- 2


63) Then Yahovah will answer, “ My people always wander away from me. But I will put an end to that. My anger has turned away from them. Now I will love them freely.

Hosea 14:4


64) Yahovah says, “ Do not go up to fight against your relatives. I want every one of you to go back home. Things have happened exactly the way I planned them.” ’ “ So the fighting men obeyed Yahovah’s message. They turned back. They didn’t march out against Jeroboam.

2nd Chronicles 11:4


65) I will roar like a lion against my enemies. You will follow me. When I roar, my children will come home trembling with fear you will return from the west.

Hosea 11:10


66) He will lift up a banner. It will show the nations that he is gathering the people of Israel. He’ll bring back those who had been taken away as prisoners. He’ll gather together the scattered people of Judah. He’ll bring them back from all four directions.

Isaiah 11:12

67) So in every way He had to be like His brothers, in order to become a compassionate and trustworthy High Priest in matters related to Elohim, to make atonement for the sins of the people.

Hebrews 2:17


68) “Take heed to yourselves. If your brother sins against you, rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him. “And if he sins against you seven times in a day, and seven times in a day comes back to you, saying, ‘repent,’ you shall forgive him.”

Luke 17:3-4


69) Therefore by this the crookedness of Ya’aqob is covered. And this is all the fruit of taking away his sin: when he makes ll the stones of the slaughter-place like chalkstones that are beaten to dust — Asherim and sun pillars rise no more.

Isaiah 27:9


The End!

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