Atonement is Made for You - Thoughts on Leviticus 16

On the day of atonement the Israelites were to humble themselves and not work. Human work and God's work of atonement never mixes. Atonement is made for you never with you. What makes you clean is not renewed work to do the right thing but by Jesus, the solitary and only scapegoat, who takes all the bad things you've done and carries them away from you into the distant wilderness of forgiveness where you could never reach on your own.

"...you shall humble you souls and not do any work, whether native, or the alien who sojourns among you; for it is on this day that atonement shall be made for you to cleanse you; you will be clean from all your sins before the Lord." Lev. 16:29-30