The service of this day required that in addition to a bullock for a sin-offering, and a ram for a burnt-offering, to make atonement for himself and his house (Lev. xvi. 3–6), the _high priest should take of the congregation_ of Israel two kids of the goats for a sin-offering (Lev. xvi. 5); he was to present the two kids at the door of the tabernacle (ver. 7), and “cast lots,” one for the Lord and one “for the scape-goat” (vers. 8 and 10). He killed the former for a sin-offering for the people, and proceeded as already described (p. 23). In addition to the blood taken within the veil, the high priest was to put some of it upon the horns of the altar, and sprinkle it seven times upon it to hallow it (vers. 18, 19). Then, as to the other, or scape-goat, Aaron laid both his hands on the head of the live goat and confessed over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins; putting them on the head of the goat, and sent him away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness, and the “goat bore them away to a land not inhabited” (Lev. xvi. 21). Although every sin-offering had a reference to the Lord Jesus Christ, the kid offered on this day by the masses of the people is treated in Heb. xiii. as having a very special application to Him, from the blood having been carried within the veil and sprinkled on the mercy seat, and from the body having been burned without the camp. So Jesus, having suffered without the gate, and having obtained eternal redemption for us, not by the blood of others, but by His own blood, having “given Himself a ransom for all,” entered not into the holy places made with hands, but into Heaven itself, there to appear in the presence of God for us. Again, in the scape-goat, which was the complement of the sin-offering, we have a reference to the Lord Jesus bearing away our sins “in His own body on the tree,” so that they should be no more remembered against us (1 Pet. ii. 24). 9th. There remains one more appointed festival, _the Feast of Tabernacles_, or ingathering (Exod. xxiii. 16) on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when the crops of wine and oil had completed the harvest labours. It lasted seven days, during which numerous sacrifices were ordained, viz.,— The 1st day, 13 bullocks, 2 rams, 14 lambs, 2nd „ 12 „ 2 „ 14 „ 3rd „ 11 . „ 2 „ 14 „ 4th „ 10 „ 2 „ 14 „ 5th „ 9 „ 2 „ 14 „ 6th „ 8 „ 2 „ 14 „ 7th „ 7 „ 2 „ 14 „ with their meat and drink-offerings. And _each_ of the seven days _one goat for a sin-offering_. And on the eighth day a holy convocation, with offerings of one bullock, one ram and seven lambs, with accompaniments, and _one ram for a sin-offering_. “These things shall ye do unto the Lord in your set feasts, besides your vows, and your freewill offerings, for your burnt-offerings, and for your meat-offerings, and for your drink-offerings, and for your peace-offerings” (Num. xxix. 12–39).