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Bible Verses About Scapegoat

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And he that let go the goat for the scapegoat shall wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in water, and afterward come into the camp.

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And Aaron shall cast lots upon the two goats; one lot for the Lord, and the other lot for the scapegoat.

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And one goat for a sin offering, to make an atonement for you.

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And Aaron shall bring the goat upon which the Lord’s lot fell, and offer him for a sin offering.

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And one kid of the goats for a sin offering, to make an atonement for you:

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And the goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities unto a land not inhabited: and he shall let go the goat in the wilderness.

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And he brought the people’s offering, and took the goat, which was the sin offering for the people, and slew it, and offered it for sin, as the first.

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And Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat, and shall send him away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness:

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All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.

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And one kid of the goats, to make an atonement for you.

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And the bullock for the sin offering, and the goat for the sin offering, whose blood was brought in to make atonement in the holy place, shall one carry forth without the camp; and they shall burn in the fire their skins, and their flesh, and their dung.

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And the priest shall make an atonement for him with the ram of the trespass offering before the Lord for his sin which he hath done: and the sin which he hath done shall be forgiven him.

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And they brought forth the he goats for the sin offering before the king and the congregation; and they laid their hands upon them:

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Hear, O our God; for we are despised: and turn their reproach upon their own head, and give them for a prey in the land of captivity:

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Wherefore have ye not eaten the sin offering in the holy place, seeing it is most holy, and God hath given it you to bear the iniquity of the congregation, to make atonement for them before the Lord?

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And also for the innocent blood that he shed: for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood; which the Lord would not pardon.

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And Moses diligently sought the goat of the sin offering, and, behold, it was burnt: and he was angry with Eleazar and Ithamar, the sons of Aaron which were left alive, saying,

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And they gave their hands that they would put away their wives; and being guilty, they offered a ram of the flock for their trespass.

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They answered and said unto him, If he were not a malefactor, we would not have delivered him up unto thee.

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And he shall lay his hand upon the head of the sin offering, and slay it for a sin offering in the place where they kill the burnt offering.

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Aaron therefore went unto the altar, and slew the calf of the sin offering, which was for himself.

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And he shall lay his hand upon the head of the goat, and kill it in the place where they kill the burnt offering before the Lord: it is a sin offering.

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Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach.

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Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest.

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Then they suborned men, which said, We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses, and against God.

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And the Levites that are gone away far from me, when Israel went astray, which went astray away from me after their idols; they shall even bear their iniquity.

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And the priests killed them, and they made reconciliation with their blood upon the altar, to make an atonement for all Israel: for the king commanded that the burnt offering and the sin offering should be made for all Israel.

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And he shall lay his hand upon the head of the sin offering, and slay the sin offering in the place of the burnt offering.

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Is the iniquity of Peor too little for us, from which we are not cleansed until this day, although there was a plague in the congregation of the Lord,

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When the sin, which they have sinned against it, is known, then the congregation shall offer a young bullock for the sin, and bring him before the tabernacle of the congregation.

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And Aaron said unto Moses, Alas, my lord, I beseech thee, lay not the sin upon us, wherein we have done foolishly, and wherein we have sinned.

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Or if his sin, which he hath sinned, come to his knowledge: then he shall bring his offering, a kid of the goats, a female without blemish, for his sin which he hath sinned.

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In the place where they kill the burnt offering shall they kill the trespass offering: and the blood thereof shall he sprinkle round about upon the altar.

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Surely at the commandment of the Lord came this upon Judah, to remove them out of his sight, for the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he did;

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If the priest that is anointed do sin according to the sin of the people; then let him bring for his sin, which he hath sinned, a young bullock without blemish unto the Lord for a sin offering.

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And he shall go out unto the altar that is before the Lord, and make an atonement for it; and shall take of the blood of the bullock, and of the blood of the goat, and put it upon the horns of the altar round about.

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And the chief priests and scribes stood and vehemently accused him.

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For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you, as it is written.

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And set up false witnesses, which said, This man ceaseth not to speak blasphemous words against this holy place, and the law:

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And he shall give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, who did sin, and who made Israel to sin.

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