He is to take from the Israelite community two male goats for a sin offering and one ram for a burnt offering.

Next he will take the two goats and place them before the LORD at the entrance to the tent of meeting.

he is to present the goat chosen by lot for the LORD and sacrifice it as a sin offering.

Therefore He had to be like His brothers in every way, so that He could become a merciful and faithful high priest in service to God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people.

Because of this, he must make a sin offering for himself as well as for the people.

But the high priest alone enters the second room, and that only once a year, and never without blood, which he offers for himself and for the sins of the people committed in ignorance.

He did not do this to offer Himself many times, as the high priest enters the sanctuary yearly with the blood of another.

Otherwise, He would have had to suffer many times since the foundation of the world. But now He has appeared one time, at the end of the ages, for the removal of sin by the sacrifice of Himself.

The LORD said to Moses: "Tell your brother Aaron that he may not come whenever he wants into the holy place behind the veil in front of the mercy seat on the ark or else he will die, because I appear in the cloud above the mercy seat.

We have this [hope]-- like a sure and firm anchor of the soul-- that enters the inner sanctuary behind the curtain.

Behind the second curtain, the tabernacle was called "the holy of holies."

But the high priest alone enters the second room, and that only once a year, and never without blood, which he offers for himself and for the sins of the people committed in ignorance.

He entered the holy of holies once for all, not by the blood of goats and calves, but by His own blood, having obtained eternal redemption.