Lev 16:2-3 | ESV | STEP | and the Lord said to Moses , Tell Aaron your brother not to come at any time into the Holy Place inside the veil , before the mercy seat that is on the ark , so that he may not die . For I will appear in the cloud over the mercy seat.

a[Ex. 30:10; Heb. 9:7, 12, 24, 25; 10:19-22]

b Ex. 25:22; 40:34, 35; [1 Kgs. 8:10-12]

Leviticus 16:2-3

2 and the Lord said to Moses, “Tell Aaron your brother not to ^acome at any time into the Holy Place inside the veil, before the mercy seat that is on the ark, so that he may not die. For ^bI will appear in the cloud over the mercy seat. 3 But in this way Aaron shall come into the Holy Place: ^cwith a bull from the herd for a sin offering and ^da ram for a burnt offering.