Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

But the goat, on which the lot fell to be the scapegoat, shall be presented alive before the LORD, to make an atonement with him, and to let him go for a scapegoat into the wilderness.

The scape-goat

Let him

Bible References

The scape-goat

Leviticus 16:21
and Aaron shall lay both his hands on the head of the living goat, and confess over it all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, and he shall put them on the head of the goat, and shall send him away to the wilderness by the hand of a man standing ready;

To make

Isaiah 53:5
But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement of our peace was upon him, and with his stripes we are healed.
Romans 4:25
who has been delivered for our offences and has been raised for our justification, it will be reckoned.
2 Corinthians 5:21
Him who knew not sin he has made sin for us, that we might become God's righteousness in him.
Hebrews 7:26
For such a high priest became us, holy, harmless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and become higher than the heavens:
Hebrews 9:23
It was necessary then that the figurative representations of the things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with sacrifices better than these.
1 John 2:2
and he is the propitiation for our sins; but not for ours alone, but also for the whole world.
1 John 3:16
Hereby we have known love, because he has laid down his life for us; and we ought for the brethren to lay down our lives.

Let him

Leviticus 14:7
and he shall sprinkle upon him that is to be cleansed from the leprosy seven times, and shall pronounce him clean, and shall let the living bird loose into the open field.