• Weakness of the Law—How 'the commandment' bears testimony to its inherent 'weakness and unprofitableness'—Specially so in the services of the Day of Atonement
• The Day of Atonement—Peculiar solemnity of that day
• Its Names—Significance of its occurrence on the 10th day of the seventh month, and previous to the Feast of Tabernacles
• The Teaching of Scripture about the Day—The high-priest officiating in a peculiar white dress
• Numbers 29:7-11—Threefold sacrifices of the day—Their order—Number of priests employed
• The Duties of the High-priest—The high-priest prepares for the Day of Atonement seven days before its occurrence, and takes up his abode in the Temple—The night of the fast—The high-priest himself performs all the day's services
• The Morning Service—How often he changed his raiment and washed his body or else his hands and feet—The ordinary morning service—The high-priest puts on his linen garments for the first time
• The Sin-offering—The sin-offering for the high-priest and his family—Confession over it—The ineffable name of Jehovah is ten times pronounced on that day
• Choosing the Scape-goat—Mode of casting the lot over the two goats—The two are really one sacrifice—A tongue-shaped piece of scarlet cloth is tied to the horn of the goat for Azazel
• The Goat Shown to the People—This goat standing before the people, waiting till their sins should be laid upon him
• The Confession of Sin and the Sacrifice—Confession of sin for the priesthood, and sacrifice of the bullock
• The Mercy-seat—The high-priest enters the Most Holy Place for the first time to burn the incense—Prayer of the high-priest on coming out—The high-priest enters the Most Holy Place a second time with the blood of the bullock
• The Sprinkling of the Blood—And a third time with that of the goat for Jehovah
• The Cleansing Completed—The sprinkling towards the veil, of the altar of incense, and of that of burnt-offering
• The Scape-goat—The high-priest lays the personal sins and the guilt of the people on the so-called 'scape-goat'—Peculiar mode of confession over it
• The Goat Sent into the Wilderness—The goat is led away into the wilderness—And pushed over a precipice
• The Meaning of the Rite—Meaning of the scape-goat
• The Teaching of Scripture—Reference to the coming of Christ, as He who would take away sin
• The Term 'la-Azazel'—Meaning of the expression la-Azazel
• The Carcasses Burnt 'Outside the City'—The high-priest's reading and prayers in the Court of the Women
• The High-priest in Golden Garments—The high-priest puts on the golden garments to offer the festive, burnt-, and other sacrifices—He again puts on his linen garments to enter the Most Holy Place for the fourth and last time
• The Mishnah—On the afternoon of the day, dance and song of the maidens of Jerusalem in the vineyards
• The Day of Atonement in the Modern Synagogue—Views of the Synagogue about the Day of Atonement.

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