6 Bible Verses about Scapegoat

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Leviticus 16:7-10

And he is to take the two goats and put them before the Lord at the door of the Tent of meeting. And Aaron will make selection from the two goats by the decision of the Lord, one goat for the Lord and one for Azazel. And the goat which is marked out for the Lord, let Aaron give for a sin-offering.read more.
But the goat for Azazel is to be placed living before the Lord, for the taking away of sin, that it may be sent away for Azazel into the waste land.

Leviticus 16:26

And the man who takes away the goat for Azazel is to have his clothing washed and his body bathed in water and then he may come back to the tent-circle.

Isaiah 53:4

But it was our pain he took, and our diseases were put on him: while to us he seemed as one diseased, on whom God's punishment had come.

Hebrews 9:11-14

But now Christ has come as the high priest of the good things of the future, through this greater and better Tent, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this world, And has gone once and for ever into the holy place, having got eternal salvation, not through the blood of goats and young oxen, but through his blood. For if the blood of goats and oxen, and the dust from the burning of a young cow, being put on the unclean, make the flesh clean:read more.
How much more will the blood of Christ, who, being without sin, made an offering of himself to God through the Holy Spirit, make your hearts clean from dead works to be servants of the living God?

From Thematic Bible


Scapegoat » Part of the sin offering on the day of atonement

Leviticus 16:5

And let him take from the children of Israel two he-goats for a sin-offering and one male sheep for a burned offering.

Leviticus 16:7

And he is to take the two goats and put them before the Lord at the door of the Tent of meeting.

Scapegoat » Sent into the wilderness by the hands of a fit person

Leviticus 16:21-22

And Aaron, placing his two hands on the head of the living goat, will make a public statement over him of all the evil doings of the children of Israel and all their wrongdoing, in all their sins; and he will put them on the head of the goat and send him away, in the care of a man who will be waiting there, into the waste land. And the goat will take all their sins into a land cut off from men, and he will send the goat away into the waste land.

Scapegoat » Communicated uncleanness to » The man who lead him away

Leviticus 16:26

And the man who takes away the goat for Azazel is to have his clothing washed and his body bathed in water and then he may come back to the tent-circle.

Scapegoat » Communicated uncleanness to » The high priest

Leviticus 16:24

And after bathing his body in water in a holy place, he is to put on his clothing and come out and give his burned offering and the burned offering of the people, to take away his sin and the sin of the people.

Scapegoat » Chosen by lot

Leviticus 16:8

And Aaron will make selection from the two goats by the decision of the Lord, one goat for the Lord and one for Azazel.

Scapegoat » Typical of Christ

Types of Christ » Scapegoat

Isaiah 53:12

For this cause he will have a heritage with the great, and he will have a part in the goods of war with the strong, because he gave up his life, and was numbered with the evil-doers; taking on himself the sins of the people, and making prayer for the wrongdoers.

Leviticus 16:20-22

And when he has done whatever is necessary to make the holy place and the Tent of meeting and the altar free from sin, let him put the living goat before the Lord; And Aaron, placing his two hands on the head of the living goat, will make a public statement over him of all the evil doings of the children of Israel and all their wrongdoing, in all their sins; and he will put them on the head of the goat and send him away, in the care of a man who will be waiting there, into the waste land. And the goat will take all their sins into a land cut off from men, and he will send the goat away into the waste land.

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