# yom kippur (יוֹם כִּפּוּר)

pronounced: yom ki-PUR


**The Day of Atonement — the one day of the year the high priest entered the Holy of Holies (Leviticus 16)**

## In Scripture

> “It shall be a statute to you forever: in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you shall afflict your souls, and shall do no kind of work, the native-born, or the stranger who lives as a foreigner among you: for on this day shall atonement be made for you, to cleanse you; from all your sins you shall be clean before Yahweh.
> — Leviticus 16:29-30 (Exact festival law — the tenth day is set apart for atonement and cleansing from sin; the Torah’s fuller form is Yom HaKippurim.)

> “However on the tenth day of this seventh month is the day of atonement: it shall be a holy convocation to you, and you shall afflict yourselves; and you shall offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh.
> — Leviticus 23:27 (Exact festival law — the Day of Atonement is a holy convocation marked by self-denial.)

> Then you shall sound the loud trumpet on the tenth day of the seventh month. On the Day of Atonement you shall sound the trumpet throughout all your land.
> — Leviticus 25:9 (Exact festival law — the Jubilee trumpet sounds throughout the land on Yom Kippur.)

> “‘On the tenth day of this seventh month you shall have a holy convocation. You shall afflict your souls. You shall do no kind of work;
> — Numbers 29:7 (Exact festival law — the tenth day is a holy assembly without regular work.)


## How to read this entry

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