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Bible Verses About The Scape Goat

10 verses · 7 aspects

Key Bible Verses

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

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

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

  4. 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.

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

  6. 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.

  7. “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.

  8. All we like sheep have gone astray. Everyone has turned to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

  9. After the suffering of his soul, he will see the light and be satisfied. My righteous servant will justify many by the knowledge of himself; and he will bear their iniquities.

  10. Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the plunder with the strong; because he poured out his soul to death, and was numbered with the transgressors; yet he bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.