Leviticus 16:10

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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

Leviticus 16:21

To make

1 John 3:16

Let him

Leviticus 14:7

Bible References

The scape-goat

Aaron will lay both his hands on the head of the live goat and confess over it all the Israelites’ wrongdoings and rebellious acts—all their sins. He is to put them on the goat’s head and send it away into the wilderness by the man appointed for the task.

To make

But He was pierced because of our transgressions,
crushed because of our iniquities;
punishment for our peace was on Him,
and we are healed by His wounds.

He was delivered up for our trespasses and raised for our justification.

He made the One who did not know sin to be sin for us, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.

For this is the kind of high priest we need: holy, innocent, undefiled, separated from sinners, and exalted above the heavens.

Therefore it was necessary for the copies of the things in the heavens to be purified with these sacrifices, but the heavenly things themselves to be purified with better sacrifices than these.

He Himself is the propitiation for our sins, and not only for ours, but also for those of the whole world.

This is how we have come to know love: He laid down His life for us. We should also lay down our lives for our brothers.

Let him

He will then sprinkle the blood seven times on the one who is to be cleansed from the skin disease. He is to pronounce him clean and release the live bird over the open countryside.