You shall do no servile work in the time of this day: because it is a day of propitiation, that the Lord your God may be merciful unto you.

and ye do no work in this self-same day, for it is a day of atonements, to make atonement for you, before Jehovah your God.

And on that day you may do no sort of work, for it is a day of taking away sin, to make you clean before the Lord your God.

Nullum opus facietis hoc ipso die, quid dies expiationum est ad expiandum vos (vel, super vos, ant pro vobis) coram Jehova Deo vestro.

A day of atonement - See the note on Leviticus 16:2, etc., where this subject is largely explained.

Ye shall do no work in that same day,.... No more than on the weekly sabbath:
for it is a day of atonement, to make atonement for you before the Lord your God: See Gill on Leviticus 16:30; Aben Ezra's note is,"for you only,''that is, for the Israelites, and not the Gentiles; but the atonement of Christ, the antitype of this, was not for the sins of the Jews only, but for the sins of the whole world, of all his people in it, 1-John 2:2.

Whatsoever soul - Either of the Jewish nation, or religion. Hereby God would signify the absolute necessity which every man had of repentance and forgiveness of sin, and the desperate condition of all impenitent persons.