6 Bible Verses about Scapegoat
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And he shall take the two goats and present them before the LORD in the door of the tabernacle of witness. And Aaron cast lots over the two goats: one lot for the LORD, and another for a scapegoat. And Aaron shall bring the goat upon which the LORD's lot fell, and offer him for a sin offering.read more.
But the goat on which the lot fell to scape, he shall set alive before the LORD; to reconcile with and to let him go free into the wilderness.
And let him that carried forth the scapegoat wash his clothes and bathe his flesh in water, and then come into the host again.
He was so despisable, that we esteemed him not. Truly, he took upon him our diseases, and bare our sorrows. And yet we counted him plagued, and beaten, and humbled of God.
The next day, John saw Jesus coming unto him, and said, "Behold, the lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.
for he hath made him to be sin for us, which knew no sin, that we by his means should be that righteousness which before God is allowed.
But Christ being a high priest of good things to come, came by a greater, and a more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands: that is to say, not of this manner building, neither by the blood of goats, and calves: but by his own blood, we entered once for all into the holy place, and found eternal redemption. For if the blood of oxen, and of goats, and the ashes of a heifer, when it was sprinkled, purified the unclean, as touching the purifying of the flesh:read more.
How much more shall the blood of Christ - which through the eternal spirit, offered himself without spot to God - purge your consciences from dead works, for to serve the living God?
From Thematic Bible
Scapegoat » Part of the sin offering on the day of atonement
And he shall take of the multitude of the children of Israel two goats for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering.
And he shall take the two goats and present them before the LORD in the door of the tabernacle of witness.
Scapegoat » Sent into the wilderness by the hands of a fit person
and let Aaron put both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the misdeeds of the children of Israel, and all their trespasses, and all their sins: and let him put them upon the head of the goat and send him away by the hands of one that is acquainted in the wilderness. And the goat shall bear upon him all their misdeeds unto the wilderness, and he shall let the goat go free in the wilderness.
Scapegoat » Communicated uncleanness to » The man who lead him away
And let him that carried forth the scapegoat wash his clothes and bathe his flesh in water, and then come into the host again.
Scapegoat » Communicated uncleanness to » The high priest
And let him wash his flesh with water in the holy place, and put on his own raiment, and then come out and offer his burnt offering and the burnt offering of the people, and make an atonement for himself and for the people;
Scapegoat » Chosen by lot
And Aaron cast lots over the two goats: one lot for the LORD, and another for a scapegoat.
Scapegoat » Typical of Christ
And we went astray as sheep, and turned every man his way: and the LORD put on him the wickedness of us all.
Types of Christ » Scapegoat
Therefore I will give him his part in many, and the spoil of the rich he shall divide: because he gave his soul to death, and was numbered with the trespassers, and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for transgressors.
And we went astray as sheep, and turned every man his way: and the LORD put on him the wickedness of us all.
And when he hath made an end of reconciling the holy place and the tabernacle of witness and the altar, let him bring the live goat and let Aaron put both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the misdeeds of the children of Israel, and all their trespasses, and all their sins: and let him put them upon the head of the goat and send him away by the hands of one that is acquainted in the wilderness. And the goat shall bear upon him all their misdeeds unto the wilderness, and he shall let the goat go free in the wilderness.
