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SEPTEMBER 21, 2026 What is Yom Kippur, and what does the Bible actually call the Day of Atonement? Leviticus 16 and 23 lay out one ritual, on one day a year, that no high priest has performed in almost two thousand years — the goat English calls a "scapegoat," the penalty for skipping the fast, what changed the day the ritual's one required room stopped existing, and how a war and a legend both attached themselves to the day afterward.