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Bible Verses About The Scape Goat

10 verses · 7 aspects

Key Bible Verses

  1. And he shall take from the congregation of Israel two male goats for a sin offering and one ram for a burnt offering.

  2. Then he shall take the two goats and present them before the LORD at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.

  3. After Aaron casts lots for the two goats, one for the LORD and the other for the scapegoat,

  4. Then he is to lay both hands on the head of the live goat and confess over it all the iniquities and rebellious acts of the Israelites in regard to all their sins. He is to put them on the goat’s head and send it away into the wilderness by the hand of a man appointed for the task.

  5. The goat will carry on itself all their iniquities into a solitary place, and the man will release it into the wilderness.

  6. He is to bathe himself with water in a holy place and put on his own clothes. Then he must go out and sacrifice his burnt offering and the people’s burnt offering to make atonement for himself and for the people.

  7. The man who released the goat as the scapegoat must wash his clothes and bathe himself with water; afterward he may reenter the camp.

  8. We all like sheep have gone astray, each one has turned to his own way; and the LORD has laid upon Him the iniquity of us all.

  9. After the anguish of His soul, He will see the light of life and be satisfied. By His knowledge My righteous Servant will justify many, and He will bear their iniquities.

  10. Therefore I will allot Him a portion with the great, and He will divide the spoils with the strong, because He has poured out His life unto death, and He was numbered with the transgressors. Yet He bore the sin of many and made intercession for the transgressors.