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 live goat, and confess over him all the sins of the sons of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them on the head of the goat, and shall send away by the hand of a chosen man into the wilderness.

To make

Isaiah 53:5
But He was wounded for our transgressions; He was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement of our peace was on Him; and with His stripes we ourselves are healed.
Romans 4:25
who was delivered because of our offenses and was raised for our justification.
2 Corinthians 5:21
For He has made Him who knew no sin, to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.
Hebrews 7:26
For such a high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners and made higher than the heavens,
Hebrews 9:23
Therefore it was necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these, but the heavenly things themselves were purified with better sacrifices than these.
1 John 2:2
And He is the propitiation concerning our sins, and not concerning ours only, but also concerning the sins of all the world.
1 John 3:16
By this we have known the love of God, because He laid down His life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

Let him

Leviticus 14:7
And he shall sprinkle on 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.