6 Bible Verses about Scapegoat
Most Relevant Verses
He shall take the two goats and present them before the Lord at the doorway of the tent of meeting. Aaron shall cast lots for the two goats, one lot for the Lord and the other lot for the scapegoat. Then Aaron shall offer the goat on which the lot for the Lord fell, and make it a sin offering.read more.
But the goat on which the lot for the scapegoat fell shall be presented alive before the Lord, to make atonement upon it, to send it into the wilderness as the scapegoat.
The one who released the goat as the scapegoat shall wash his clothes and bathe his body with water; then afterward he shall come into the camp.
Surely our griefs He Himself bore,
And our sorrows He carried;
Yet we ourselves esteemed Him stricken,
Smitten of God, and afflicted.
The next day he *saw Jesus coming to him and *said, “Behold, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!
He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.
But when Christ appeared as a high priest of the good things to come, He entered through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this creation; and not through the blood of goats and calves, but through His own blood, He entered the holy place once for all, having obtained eternal redemption. For if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling those who have been defiled sanctify for the cleansing of the flesh,read more.
how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
From Thematic Bible
Scapegoat » Part of the sin offering on the day of atonement
He shall take from the congregation of the sons of Israel
He shall take the two goats and present them before the Lord at the doorway of the tent of meeting.
Scapegoat » Sent into the wilderness by the hands of a fit person
"Then Aaron shall lay both of his hands on the head of the live goat, and confess over it all the iniquities of the sons of Israel and all their transgressions in regard to all their sins; and he shall lay them on the head of the goat and send it away into the wilderness by the hand of a man who stands in readiness. "The goat shall bear on itself all their iniquities to a solitary land; and he shall release the goat in the wilderness.
Scapegoat » Communicated uncleanness to » The man who lead him away
The one who released the goat as the
Scapegoat » Communicated uncleanness to » The high priest
Scapegoat » Chosen by lot
Aaron shall cast lots for the two goats, one lot for the Lord and the other lot for the
Scapegoat » Typical of Christ
Each of us has turned to his own way;
But the Lord has caused the iniquity of us all
To
Types of Christ » Scapegoat
And He will divide the booty with the strong;
Because He poured out
And was
Yet He Himself
And interceded for the transgressors.
Each of us has turned to his own way;
But the Lord has caused the iniquity of us all
To
"When he finishes atoning for the holy place and the tent of meeting and the altar, he shall offer the live goat. "Then Aaron shall lay both of his hands on the head of the live goat, and confess over it all the iniquities of the sons of Israel and all their transgressions in regard to all their sins; and he shall lay them on the head of the goat and send it away into the wilderness by the hand of a man who stands in readiness. "The goat shall bear on itself all their iniquities to a solitary land; and he shall release the goat in the wilderness.
