Achrei Mot

After the death of Aaron's two sons, God sets the terms for entering the innermost sanctuary: not at any time, but once a year, on the tenth day of the seventh month. Aaron comes in linen garments, not his golden vestments, with a bull for his own sin offering and two goats for the people, over which lots are cast — one for the LORD, one for Azazel. He brings incense inside the veil so that its cloud covers the ark's cover, sprinkles the blood of the bull and then of the LORD's goat there and on the altar, and so makes atonement for the sanctuary itself, from the midst of the people's uncleanness.

Then the live goat: Aaron lays both hands on its head, confesses over it all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and sends it away into the wilderness — bearing their sins to a remote land. He bathes, resumes his garments, and completes the offerings. The day is fixed forever: a Sabbath of complete rest, self-denial for citizen and stranger alike, atonement once a year for all sins before the LORD.

Slaughter of ox, lamb, or goat must be brought to the entrance of the tent — no more sacrifices in the open field to goat-demons. Blood is not eaten under any circumstance, "for the life of the flesh is in the blood," whether by Israelite or stranger; hunted game has its blood poured out and covered. The final chapter addresses intimate relations: not as the land of Egypt did, and not as the land of Canaan does. The forbidden unions are listed one by one — close kin, a woman and her sister, a neighbor's wife — along with Molech-worship and other practices, with the warning that these defiled the land before them, and that the land vomits out those who defile it.