Bible Verses About Scapegoat

He is to take the two goats and place them before ADONAI at the entrance to the tent of meeting.

Then Aharon is to cast lots for the two goats, one lot for ADONAI and the other for 'Az'azel.

Aharon is to present the goat whose lot fell to ADONAI and offer it as a sin offering.

But the goat whose lot fell to 'Az'azel is to be presented alive to ADONAI to be used for making atonement over it by sending it away into the desert for 'Az'azel.

"When he has finished atoning for the Holy Place, the tent of meeting and the altar, he is to present the live goat.

Aharon is to lay both his hands on the head of the live goat and confess over it all the transgressions, crimes and sins of the people of Isra'el; he is to put them on the head of the goat and then send it away into the desert with a man appointed for the purpose.

The goat will bear all their transgressions away to some isolated place, and he is to let the goat go in the desert.

"Aharon is to go back into the tent of meeting, where he is to remove the linen garments he put on when he entered the Holy Place, and he is to leave them there.

Then he is to bathe his body in water in a holy place, put on his other clothes, come out and offer his burnt offering and the burnt offering of the people, thus making atonement for himself and for the people.

He is to make the fat of the sin offering go up in smoke on the altar.

"The man who let go the goat for 'Az'azel is to wash his clothes and bathe his body in water; afterwards, he may return to the camp.

"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, is to be carried outside the camp; there they are to burn up completely their hides, meat and dung.

The person burning them is to wash his clothes and bathe his body in water; afterwards, he may return to the camp.

"It is to be a permanent regulation for you that on the tenth day of the seventh month you are to deny yourselves and not do any kind of work, both the citizen and the foreigner living with you.

For on this day, atonement will be made for you to purify you; you will be clean before ADONAI from all your sins.

It is a Shabbat of complete rest for you, and you are to deny yourselves. "This is a permanent regulation.

The cohen anointed and consecrated to be cohen in his father's place will make the atonement; he will put on the linen garments, the holy garments;

he will make atonement for the Especially Holy Place; he will make atonement for the tent of meeting and the altar; and he will make atonement for the cohanim and for all the people of the community.

This is a permanent regulation for you, to make atonement for the people of Isra'el because of all their sins once a year." Moshe did as ADONAI had ordered him.