The Ritual of the Scapegoat (Azazel)

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

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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.

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

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"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.

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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.

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

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"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.

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"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.

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

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