Under the Law Atonement
25 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
18 sections
- Extraordinary Cases of
- Made by Sacrifice
- Necessary For: Propitiating God
- Necessary For: Purifying
- Necessary For: Ransoming
- Offered For: Persons Sinning Ignorantly
- Offered For: Persons Sinning Wilfully
- Offered For: Persons Swearing Rashly
- Offered For: Persons Unclean
- Offered For: Persons Withholding Evidence
- Offered For: The Altar
- Offered For: The Congregation
- Offered For: The Healed Leper
- Offered For: The Holy Place
- Offered For: The Leprous House Healed
- Offered For: The Priests
- Offered For: Women After Childbirth
- Typical of Christ's Atonement
Extraordinary Cases of
- Exodus 32:30–34 The next day Moses said to the people, “You have committed a great sin. Now I will go up to the LORD; perhaps I can make atonement for your sin.” …
- Numbers 16:47 So Aaron took the censer as Moses had ordered and ran into the midst of the assembly. And seeing that the plague had begun among the people, he offered the incense and made atonement for the people.
- Numbers 25:10–13 Then the LORD said to Moses, …
Made by Sacrifice
- Leviticus 1:4–5 He is to lay his hand on the head of the burnt offering, so it can be accepted on his behalf to make atonement for him. …
Necessary For: Propitiating God
- Exodus 32:30 The next day Moses said to the people, “You have committed a great sin. Now I will go up to the LORD; perhaps I can make atonement for your sin.”
- Leviticus 23:27–28 “The tenth day of this seventh month is the Day of Atonement. You shall hold a sacred assembly and humble yourselves, and present a food offering to the LORD. …
- 2 Samuel 21:3 So David asked the Gibeonites, “What shall I do for you? How can I make amends so that you may bless the inheritance of the LORD?”
Necessary For: Purifying
- Exodus 29:36 Sacrifice a bull as a sin offering each day for atonement. Purify the altar by making atonement for it, and anoint it to consecrate it.
Necessary For: Ransoming
- Exodus 30:15–16 In making the offering to the LORD to atone for your lives, the rich shall not give more than a half shekel, nor shall the poor give less. …
- Job 33:24 to be gracious to him and say, ‘Spare him from going down to the Pit; I have found his ransom,’
Offered For: Persons Sinning Ignorantly
- Leviticus 4:20–35 He shall offer this bull just as he did the bull for the sin offering; in this way the priest will make atonement on their behalf, and they will be forgiven. …
Offered For: Persons Sinning Wilfully
- Leviticus 6:7 In this way the priest will make atonement for him before the LORD, and he will be forgiven for anything he may have done to incur guilt.”
Offered For: Persons Swearing Rashly
- Leviticus 5:4 Or if someone swears thoughtlessly with his lips to do anything good or evil— in whatever matter a man may rashly pronounce an oath— even if he is unaware of it, when he realizes it, he is guilty in the matter.
- Leviticus 5:6 and he must bring his guilt offering to the LORD for the sin he has committed: a female lamb or goat from the flock as a sin offering. And the priest will make atonement for him concerning his sin.
Offered For: Persons Unclean
- Leviticus 5:2–3 Or if a person touches anything unclean— whether the carcass of any unclean wild animal or livestock or crawling creature— even if he is unaware of it, he is unclean and guilty. …
- Leviticus 5:6 and he must bring his guilt offering to the LORD for the sin he has committed: a female lamb or goat from the flock as a sin offering. And the priest will make atonement for him concerning his sin.
Offered For: Persons Withholding Evidence
- Leviticus 5:1 “If someone sins by failing to testify when he hears a public charge about something he has witnessed, whether he has seen it or learned of it, he shall bear the iniquity.
- Leviticus 5:6 and he must bring his guilt offering to the LORD for the sin he has committed: a female lamb or goat from the flock as a sin offering. And the priest will make atonement for him concerning his sin.
Offered For: The Altar
- Exodus 29:36–37 Sacrifice a bull as a sin offering each day for atonement. Purify the altar by making atonement for it, and anoint it to consecrate it. …
- Leviticus 16:18–19 Then he shall go out to the altar that is before the LORD and make atonement for it. He is to take some of the bull’s blood and some of the goat’s blood and put it on all the horns of the altar. …
Offered For: The Congregation
- Numbers 15:25 The priest is to make atonement for the whole congregation of Israel, so that they may be forgiven; for the sin was unintentional and they have brought to the LORD a food offering and a sin offering, presented before the LORD for …
- 2 Chronicles 29:24 And the priests slaughtered the goats and put their blood on the altar for a sin offering, to make atonement for all Israel, because the king had ordered the burnt offering and the sin offering for all Israel.
Offered For: The Healed Leper
- Leviticus 14:18 The rest of the oil in his palm, the priest is to put on the head of the one to be cleansed, to make atonement for him before the LORD.
Offered For: The Holy Place
- Leviticus 16:16–17 So he shall make atonement for the Most Holy Place because of the impurities and rebellious acts of the Israelites in regard to all their sins. He is to do the same for the Tent of Meeting which abides among them in the midst of …
Offered For: The Leprous House Healed
- Leviticus 14:53 Finally, he is to release the live bird into the open fields outside the city. In this way he will make atonement for the house, and it will be clean.
Offered For: The Priests
- Exodus 29:31–33 You are to take the ram of ordination and boil its flesh in a holy place. …
- Leviticus 8:34 What has been done today has been commanded by the LORD in order to make atonement on your behalf.
Offered For: Women After Childbirth
- Leviticus 12:8 But if she cannot afford a lamb, she shall bring two turtledoves or two young pigeons, one for a burnt offering and the other for a sin offering. Then the priest will make atonement for her, and she will be clean.’”
Typical of Christ's Atonement
- Romans 5:6–11 For at just the right time, while we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. …
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Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.