The same was afterwards done at the Temple. 1 Chronicles 16:37-40; 2 Chronicles 2:4; 13:4-12; (13:3 see 2 Chronicles 31:3) Ezra 3:3. This did not atone for sins either individually or collectively. The daily service described was a sort of continual intercession; but the making of atonement was a special work for which special directions are given.
Different words are used both in the Old Testament and New, to express the same idea as At-one-ment. Examples. - The italicized words are, in the text, synonymous with atone or atonement. Exodus 29:36;"Thou shalt cleanse the altar when thou hast made an atonement for it." - Leviticus 12:8; "The priest shall make an atonement for her and she shall be clean ." Leviticus 14:2; "This shall be the law of the leper in the day of his cleansing ." Verse 21; "The priest shall make an atonement for him and he shall be clean. " The atonement could not be made for him till after he was healed of the leprosy, Leviticus 13:45,46.
Till he was healed, he had to dwell alone without the camp. Then Leviticus 14:3,4; "The priest shall go forth out of the camp; and the priest shall look, and behold if the plague of the leprosy be healed in the leper; then shall the priest command to take for him that is to be cleansed two birds alive and clean ," etc. The law was the same in cleansing a house from the leprosy.
Verses 33-57; The stones affected with the plague were removed and the house "scraped within round about" and then repaired with new material.