Provisions for Cleansing Defilement

  1. Day of Atonement, Yom Kippur, atones for sin of the nation of Israel. (Leviticus 16)
  2. Sin Offering atones for sins against God. (Leviticus 4-5)
  3. Trespass offering ends defilement of man against man. (Leviticus 5-7)
  4. Ashes of the red heifer. (Numbers 19)
  5. Cleansing of the leper. (Leviticus 13)
  6. Laver
    • Exodus 30:18: Make a bronze basin, with its bronze stand, for washing. Place it between the Tent of Meeting and the altar, and put water in it.
    • Exodus 40:30: He placed the basin between the Tent of Meeting and the altar and put water in it for washing.
  7. Golden plate, to bear the iniquity of the high priest.
    • Exodus 25:17: Make an atonement cover of pure gold — two and a half cubits long and a cubit and a half wide.
    • Exodus 26:34: Put the atonement cover on the ark of the Testimony in the Most Holy Place.

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