Leviticus 16

Leviticus 16:2

Come not] The High-Priest must enter into the most Holy place but once in the year, on the tenth day of the seventh moneth, Levit. XVI. 29, 34. Exod. XXX. 10. Heb. IX. 7. That is, for his Priestly Ministration and Expiation. And then he was to be cloathed, not with the glorious garments which were peculiar to the High-Priest; but with those which were Common to him with the inferiour Priests, Levit. XVI. 4. as being a day of Humiliation and Afflicting the soul, Levit. XVI. 29. Yet upon other necessary occasions, he might enter in at other times, as at the taking down, and setting up of the Tabernacle in their removals and journeys in the Wildernesse; And when they took thence the Arke, upon severall occasions, as Josh. VI. 4. 1. Sam. IV. 3.