The Festival of Atonement

26 Yahweh also said to Moses/me, 27 “You must celebrate a day on which you request that I forgive you for the sins that you have committed. That day will be nine days after the festival when the priests blow the trumpets. On that day you must ◄fast/abstain from eating food►. You must gather together to worship me and present offerings to me that will be burned on the altar. 28 You must not do any work on that day, because it is the day when the priests will offer sacrifices to me to ◄atone for/ask me to forgive► your sins. 29 You must expel from your group anyone who does not ◄fast/abstain from eating food► on that day. 30 I will get rid of anyone who does any kind of work on that day. 31 You must not work at all! You must always obey those instructions/commands, and you must obey them wherever you live. 32 That day will be a day of complete rest for all of you, and on that day you must ◄fast/abstain from eating food► to show that you are sorry for having sinned. That day of rest and ◄fasting/abstaining from eating food► will begin on the evening before the day in which you ask me to forgive you for your sins, and it will end on the evening of the following day.”