SCAPEGOAT

Passages on this topic · 19

• Leviticus 16:7

  He shall take the two goats, and set them before Yahweh at the door of the Tent of Meeting.

• Leviticus 16:8

  Aaron shall cast lots for the two goats; one lot for Yahweh, and the other lot for the scapegoat.

• Leviticus 16:9

  Aaron shall present the goat on which the lot fell for Yahweh, and offer him for a sin offering.

• Leviticus 16:10

  But the goat, on which the lot fell for the scapegoat, shall be presented alive before Yahweh, to make atonement for him, to send him away for the scapegoat into the wilderness.

• Leviticus 16:20

  “When he has finished atoning for the Holy Place, the Tent of Meeting, and the altar, he shall present the live goat.

• Leviticus 16:21

  Aaron shall lay both his hands on the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions, even all their sins; and he shall put them on the head of the goat, and shall send him away into the wilderness by the hand of a man who is in readiness.

• Leviticus 16:22

  The goat shall carry all their iniquities on himself to a solitary land, and he shall let the goat go in the wilderness.

• Leviticus 16:23

  “Aaron shall come into the Tent of Meeting, and shall take off the linen garments, which he put on when he went into the Holy Place, and shall leave them there.

• Leviticus 16:24

  Then he shall bathe himself in water in a holy place, and put on his garments, and come out and offer his burnt offering and the burnt offering of the people, and make atonement for himself and for the people.

• Leviticus 16:25

  The fat of the sin offering he shall burn on the altar.

• Leviticus 16:26

  “He who lets the goat go for the scapegoat shall wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp.

• Leviticus 16:27

  The bull for the sin offering, and the goat for the sin offering, whose blood was brought in to make atonement in the Holy Place, shall be carried outside the camp; and they shall burn their skins, their flesh, and their dung with fire.

• Leviticus 16:28

  He who burns them shall wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp.

• Leviticus 16:29

  “It shall be a statute to you forever: in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you shall afflict your souls, and shall do no kind of work, the native-born, or the stranger who lives as a foreigner among you:

• Leviticus 16:30

  for on this day shall atonement be made for you, to cleanse you; from all your sins you shall be clean before Yahweh.

• Leviticus 16:31

  It is a Sabbath of solemn rest to you, and you shall afflict your souls. It is a statute forever.

• Leviticus 16:32

  The priest, who is anointed and who is consecrated to be priest in his father’s place, shall make the atonement, and shall put on the linen garments, even the holy garments.

• Leviticus 16:33

  Then he shall make atonement for the Holy Sanctuary; and he shall make atonement for the Tent of Meeting and for the altar; and he shall make atonement for the priests and for all the people of the assembly.

• Leviticus 16:34

  “This shall be an everlasting statute for you, to make atonement for the children of Israel once in the year because of all their sins.” It was done as Yahweh commanded Moses.